A replicated 3000 yr proxy-climate record from Coom Rigg Moss and Felecia Moss, the Border Mires, northern England
✍ Scribed by Dmitri Mauquoy; Keith Barber
- Book ID
- 101283086
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0267-8179
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✦ Synopsis
Quantitative plant macrofossil and colorimetric humification analyses have been used to reconstruct proxy-climate from two paired ombrotrophic bogs in northern England (Coom Rigg Moss and Felecia Moss). Detrended correspondence analysis was used to transform the raw floral data into indices of mire surface wetness. The chronology of each peat profile was determined by radiocarbon assay, supported by pollen correlations. Palaeoclimatic reconstructions have been made by linking documented historical changes in climate, and other proxy-climate records, to those inferred from the sites investigated in the study region.
Both sites contain a sensitive palaeoclimatic record, as ten periods of increased effective precipitation have been detected between ca. cal.