Boreal
Back to PreborealRepresentation 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
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Boreal
- Français
- Boréal
- English
- Boreal
- Origin of the Name
- Cold climatic phase originally based on the study of Danish peat bogs.
- Historical Variants
- Boreal (Blytt 1876)
Age
- Age at top
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- Holocene
- Note about top
- 8000 BP = 9000 calBP = 7050 BC
- Age at base
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- Holocene
- Note about base
- 9000 BP = 10200 calBP = 8250 BC
- Dating Method
- 8690-7270 av. J.C.
References
- Definition
-
1876) :
Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. Christiania, 89 pages
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p.63: Boreal [plants] which have their greatest distribution in the low lands, and which do not prefer the coast climate in the province of Bergen, but which however mostly grow both east and west of the mountain ridge.