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Absolute Pollen Diagram from the British Late-Glacial

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BLELHAM BOG, a National Nature Reserve 1.2 km west of Windermere, overlies two small infilled kettleholes in gravels of the latest major glaciation. In the western kettlehole the succession of late-glacial sediments includes two organic layers (carbon content approximately 20 per cent of dry weight) respectively 5 cm and 40 cm thick, separated by a silt of low organic content (carbon about 6 per cent). Two radiocarbon dates from the lower organic layer, 12,380 BC ± 230 and 12,330 BC ± 230 (Q 758), and descriptions of stratigraphy, pollen analysis, diatoms and Cladoceran remains in the late-glacial sediments have been published1–5.

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  1. WINIFRED PENNINGTON & ANNE P. BONNY

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PENNINGTON, W., BONNY, A. Absolute Pollen Diagram from the British Late-Glacial. Nature 226, 871–873 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226871a0

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