Pollen analysis of soil archives

Authors
Publication date 2019
Host editors
  • J.M. van Mourik
  • J.J.M. van der Meer
Book title Reading the soil archives
Book subtitle Unraveling the geoecological code of palaeosols and sediment cores
ISBN
  • 9780444641083
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9780444641090
Series Developments in Quaternary Science
Chapter 2
Pages (from-to) 31-80
Number of pages 50
Publisher Amsterdam: Elsevier
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Abstract This chapter is dedicated to soil pollen analysis. Pollen analysis of limnic deposits and peat was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century, but the first results of pollen analysis of soils appeared in the 1960s. Without knowledge of the processes of infiltration and conservations of pollen in soil, achieved by micromorphological analysis, a reliable interpretation of soil pollen spectra is not possible.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64108-3.00002-1
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