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Formal Status and Vegetational Development of the Eemian Interglacial in Northwestern and Southern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles Turner
Charles Turner*
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Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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1To whom correspondence should be addressed. c.turner@open.ac.uk.
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Abstract

The terms Eem and Eemian have been applied to lithostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic, and biostratigraphic aspects of the last interglacial in western Europe. Eemian vegetational successions show strong uniformity at sites from western France across the North European Plain to Poland, suggesting, by comparison with the Holocene, that major pollen zones are broadly synchronous. South of the Alps and Pyrenees, a different vegetational succession is observed with no evidence for a substage of post-temperate cooling.

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Eemianlast interglacialstratotypevegetational development

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Quaternary Research , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , July 2002 , pp. 41 - 44
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University of Washington

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