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Author : Gajewski, K.; and Garneau, J.C.
Date : 1996.
Title : Paleoenvironments of the Canadian High Arctic derived from pollen and plant macrofossils: problems and potentials.
Publication : Quaternary Science Reviews
Issue : 14(6):
Page(s) : 609-629.
Abstract
Palynomorophs and plant macrofossils from peat sections, lake sediments and ice cores record different aspects of the environment with particualr spatial and temporal scales of resolution. In the Arctic, the limits to the interpretation of past environments are particularly significant. Problems of low pollen concentrations, long-distance transport, stratigraphic inversions are contamination by fossils from older deposits are more serious in this region due to the biogeographic context that characterizes these high latitudes and influences the particular ecological and geomorphological processes. However, recent work has shown that past environments can be reconstructed from evidence preserved in high arctic sediments and ie cores, if these problems are taken into accout before interpretation.
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