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Time-scales and dating

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Vegetation history

Part of the book series: Handbook of vegetation science ((HAVS,volume 7))

Abstract

The development of the vegetation during the past 10 million years (10 My) has taken place in a changing geological environment and to a great extent reflects these changes. Climate change led to the extinction of many plant species. During the Pliocene and Pleistocene, increasingly marked cold-temperate cycles and later glacial-interglacial cycles were important physical factors regulating plant life. The continental ice alone, which at times covered approximately 30% of the area of the continents, constituted an absolute physical barrier to plant life, and thus the glacial history in part determined the vegetational history. Climate changes have, however, also influenced the physical environment beyond the glaciated regions, e.g., via a broad periglacial zone, a high incidence of pluvial phenomena, and fluctuations in sea-level causing the emergence and submergence of extensive land areas (Bartlein, this volume). The study of these phenomena also offers a tool for the indirect dating of the vegetation history.

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    T. Webb III

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Saarnisto, M. (1988). Time-scales and dating. In: Huntley, B., Webb, T. (eds) Vegetation history. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3081-0_4

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