Oldest Dryas
Back to Pléniglaciaire supérieurRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 245 G: 255 B: 245
- Rank
- climato/palynostratigraphy
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Älteste Dryas
- Français
- Dryas ancien (Dryas I)
- English
- Oldest Dryas
- Origin of the Name
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Named after the cold-climate wildflower Dryas octopetala Linnaeus.
- Historical Variants
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Zone Ia (Firbas 1949), Dryas ancien inférieur (Arn 1978), Älteste Dryas Chronozone (Welten 1982), early Dryas (Campy 1984), Dryas ancien (Arn 1992), Dryas précoce, Älteste Dryaszeit, Älteste Tundrazeit, Dryas 1
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
Age
- Age at top
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- Late Pleistocene
- Age at base
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- Late Pleistocene
- Dating Method
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15000-13000 BP = 11850-11720 av. J.C.