POLLEN ANALYSIS OF UPPER PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS AT CAMPO FELICE, CENTRAL ITALY
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Di Rita F. & Magri D., Pollen analysis of Upper Pleistocene sediments at Campo Felice, Central Italy. IT ISSN 0394-3356,
2004.
The pollen record from the lacustrine sediments of the Campo Felice Plain (Abruzzo, Central Italy) provides the first palaeovegetational
data for the mountain belt of the central Apennines during the Upper Pleistocene. The estimated age of the record is 90,000 years,
based on the biostratigraphical correlation with the other long pollen records from Central and Southern Italy. A wooded period at the
base of the diagram is correlated with the forest phase St Germain II s.l., while a long time interval of steppe vegetation in the upper
part of the record is assigned to the last glacial maximum. The presence, appearance or disappearance of tree taxa (Juniperus, Pinus,
Fagus, Abies, Picea and Betula) in the region is inferred from the features of the pollen diagram, which provides also information on a
number of lake-level oscillations and sedimentological events.
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