Pollen record of sediment core GeoB1008-3 from the Congo fan

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Palynological investigation of the marine core, GeoB1008-3, from near the mouth of the Congo river (6°35.6'S/10°19.1'E), provides information about the changes in vegetation and climate in West Equatorial Africa during the last 190 ka. The pollen diagram is divided into zones 1–6 which are considered to correspond in time with the marine isotope stages 1–6. Oscillations in temperature and moisture are indicated during the cold stage 6. During stage 5, two cooler periods (5d and 5b) can be shown with an expansion of Podocarpus forests to lower elevations on the expense of lowland rain forest. Extended mangrove swamps existed along the coast in times of high sea level (stages 5 and 1).

Supplement to: Jahns, Susanne (1996): Vegetation history and climate changes in west Equatorial Africa during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, based on a marine pollen diagram from the Congo fan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 5(3), 207-213

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.55002
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00217498
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.55002
Provenance
Creator Jahns, Susanne
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1996
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 20680 data points
Discipline Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (10.319 LON, -6.582 LAT); Angola Basin