Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene vegetation and climate changes at the European scale: Long pollen records and climatostratigraphy

Speranta Maria Popescu; Demet Biltekin; Hanna Winter; Jean Pierre Suc; Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu; Stefan Klotz; Marina Rabineau; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Georges Clauzon; Florina Deaconu

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.03.013

Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene vegetation and climate changes at the European scale: Long pollen records and climatostratigraphy

Speranta Maria Popescu^*, Demet Biltekin, Hanna Winter, Jean Pierre Suc, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Stefan Klotz, Marina Rabineau, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Georges Clauzon, Florina Deaconu

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Abstract

The biostratigraphically calibrated long pollen record at DSDP Site 380 (southwestern Black Sea) displays a high-resolution continuous and contrasted evolution of the vegetation in the region for the entire Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene. An accurate correlation is established with the reference global oxygen isotopic curve and with the Northwestern European climatostratigraphy. Climatostratigraphic relationships are evident at the latitudinal and longitudinal scale of Europe, confirming the extensive strength of pollen analysis as a tool for correlations over large distances.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	152-167
Number of pages	16
Journal	Quaternary International
Volume	219
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.03.013
Publication status	Published - Jun 2010

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The IODP curatorial staff provided samples of DSDP Site 380. The Polish Geological Survey performed the Wólka Ligezowska borehole. The French Embassy in Turkey assisted one of the authors (D.B.). This paper is a contribution to the French ANR EGEO Project. This work also has been supported by the Programme type EUROCORES-ESF , Grant N° 2/2008 of CNCSIS (National Council of Scientific Research of Romania) . Two anonymous reviewers are acknowledged for their constructive comments. We particularly thank M.B. Cita and B. Pillans for their invitation to publish in this special volume and N. Catto, Editor-in-Chief of Quaternary International for his help and consideration. We want to warmly honour Waldo H. Zagwijn’s perceptive pioneer contribution.

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Popescu, S. M., Biltekin, D., Winter, H., Suc, J. P., Melinte-Dobrinescu, M. C., Klotz, S., Rabineau, M., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Clauzon, G., & Deaconu, F. (2010). Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene vegetation and climate changes at the European scale: Long pollen records and climatostratigraphy. Quaternary International, 219(1-2), 152-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.03.013

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