Acta Peleobotanica (Supplementum 4,
2003) 
CONTENTS
Late
Pleistocene vegetation history and
climatic changes at Horoszki Duże, eastern Poland: a palaeobotanical
study
WOJCIECH GRANOSZEWSKI, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland; e-mail: wgranoszewski@pigok.com.pl
Received 25 June 2003; accepted for publication 29 July 2003
Abstract:
In the present study, 197 samples from one core were examined by pollen analysis, and 157 for plant macroscopic remains; and lithological analyses (loss on ignition and grain size distribution) of the sediment were carried out. 408 plant taxa of various levels were determined. The results of the palaeobotanical analysis are presented graphically in diagrams and in a floristic list. As presented in the Table 5 thirty-nine biostratigraphic units (HD-1 - HD-39) were distinguished at the level of local pollen assemblage zones (L PAZ) and on the basis of this it was determined that the sediment sequence from Horoszki Duże spans the closing phase of the late Wartanian (Saalian) Glacial, the Eemian interglacial, the Early Vistulian (Weichselian) and a part of the Plenivistulian (Middle Weichselian). The vegetation history and climatic changes as reflected in sections of this part of the Pleistocene in the region of Horoszki are presented on the basis of these data.
Key words:
pollen analysis, plant macrofossils, palaeoclimate, steppe-tundra, vegetation history, Eemian interglacial, Brörup interstadial, Odderade interstadial, Vistulian (Weichselian), Pleistocene