Atlantic
Back to SubborealRepresentation 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
- Atlantikum
- Français
- Atlantique
- Italiano
- Atlantico
- English
- Atlantic
- Origin of the Name
- Warm and moist climatic phase originally based on the study of Danish peat bogs.
- Historical Variants
- Atlantic plants = Bergen coast-plants (Blytt 1876), Atlantikum = mittelholozänes Wärmeoptimum (Burga & Perret 1998)
Description
- Description
- optimum climatique
Age
- Age at top
-
- Holocene
- Note about top
- 4700 BP = 5750-5500 calBP = 4800-3550 BC
- Age at base
-
- Holocene
- Dating Method
- 7270-3710 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.64: Atlantic, or Bergen coast-plants, which have their greatest distribution, or occur exclusively in the lower coast regions near the open sea from Stavanger to Christianssund.