Grüger, Eberhard; Jerz, Hermann (2010): AMS radiocarbon dates and pollen analysis from Zugspitzplatt [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728444, Supplement to: Grüger, E; Jerz, H (2010): Untersuchung einer Doline auf dem Zugspitzplatt: Ein palynologischer Beitrag zur holozänen Gletschergeschichte im Wettersteingebirge (Investigation of a doline on the Zugspitzplatt - a palynological contribution to the Holocene glacial history of the Wettersteingebirge). E&G - Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart - Quaternary Science Journal, 59(1-2), 66-75, https://doi.org/10.3285/eg.59.1-2.06
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Abstract:
On the strongly karstified and almost unvegetated surface of the Zugspitzplatt, at an altitude of about 2290 m in the Wettersteingebirge, there is a doline within which over a period of several thousand years a bed of fine loess-like sediment, almost 1m thick, has accumulated. Notwithstanding the situation of this locality far above the present tree-line, this infill contains quantities of pollen and spores sufficient for pollen analysis without use of any enrichment techniques. Despite poor pollen preservation, it was possible to date the basal layers of this profile on the basis of their pollen assemblages. AMS dating (7415 ± 30 BP) has confirmed that the oldest sediments were laid down during the early Atlantic period, the time of the thermal optimum of the Holocene. At least since that time this site has never been overridden by a glacier. The moraine associated with the Löbben Oscillation between 3400 and 3100 BP - here represented by the so-called Platt Stillstand (Plattstand) - did not quite reach the doline. A diagram shows known Holocene glacial limits. The composition of the pollen assemblages from the two oldest levels with high pollen concentrations strongly suggests that the distance between the doline and the forest was much less during the Atlantic than at present.
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Median Latitude: 47.441497 * Median Longitude: 10.997128 * South-bound Latitude: 47.408800 * West-bound Longitude: 10.983611 * North-bound Latitude: 47.467670 * East-bound Longitude: 11.009420
Date/Time Start: 1992-10-13T10:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-12-10T12:00:00
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Frillensee * Latitude: 47.454556 * Longitude: 10.983611 * Date/Time: 1992-10-13T10:00:00 * Elevation: 973.0 m * Location: Bavaria, Germany * Method/Device: Dachnowski corer (DACH) * Comment: Profile D; sediment surface sample from the northern edge of the lake, next to its outlet into lake Eibsee
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- Grüger, E; Jerz, H (2010): Pollen analysis of a surface sediment sample from the Frillensee (Germany), Profile D. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.710775
- Grüger, E; Jerz, H (2010): Pollen analysis of a surface sediment sample from the Lerchwald (Germany), Profile B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.711052
- Grüger, E; Jerz, H (2010): Pollen analysis of a surface sediment sample from the Lerchwald (Germany), Profile C. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.711053
- Grüger, E; Jerz, H (2010): Age determination of sediment core Zugspitzplatt. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728443
- Grüger, E; Jerz, H (2010): Pollen analysis of a sediment profile from the Zugspitzplatt (Germany), Profile A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.710773