Atlantic

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Representation 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

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit
Units at roof
Units at floor

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
Blytt Axel Gudbrandt (1876) : Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. Christiania, 89 pages

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.
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