Lateglacial and early Holocene environmental dynamics in northern Lithuania: A multi-proxy record from Ginkūnai Lake

Lateglacial and Holocene environmental history in the area of Samogitian Upland (NW Lithuania)

“…However, the appearance of Salix pollen at the base of sediment section (LPAZ L p −1) may indicate the slight pre-Allerød warming which was identified in some other sites in the territory of Lithuania (Balakauskas 2012). Presence of Betula, Pinus and large number of herbs in the sediments seems to be characteristic of the early Lateglacial similar as in the northern part of Lithuania (Stančikaitė et al 2015). Betula macrofossils found in the western part of Lithuania (Stančikaitė et al 2008) confirm growth of birch trees in the area at that time.…”

“…Records from numerous paleobotanical, lithological and chronological investigations across Lithuania quite well unclose the vegetation cover and environmental variations during the last Lateglacial and Holocene (Kabailienė 1993(Kabailienė , 2006bBlažauskas et al 1998;Stančikaitė et al 2002Stančikaitė et al , 2003Stančikaitė et al , 2004Stančikaitė et al , 2006Stančikaitė et al , 2008Stančikaitė et al , 2009Stančikaitė et al , 2015Gaidamavičius et al 2011;Balakauskas et al 2012;Gryguc et al 2013). However, when dealing with marginal areas of the Late Weichselian Scandinavian ice sheet it faces many uncertainties related to the peculiarities of local environmental conditions and problems with stratigraphical subdivision of sediment layers (Satkūnas 2011;Šeirienė et al 2015).…”

“…The postglacial environmental conditions in the north−western part of Lithuania are less studied (Kabailienė 2006b;Stančikaitė et al 2006Stančikaitė et al , 2008Stančikaitė et al , 2015Šeirienė et al 2006) in comparison with the rest part of Lithuania. Therefore two new cores have been obtained and investigated in the Samogitian Upland (NW Lithuania).…”

Sediment record from the Kamyshovoe Lake: history of vegetation during late Pleistocene – early Holocene (Kaliningrad District, Russia)

“…According to the results of the pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating, the accumulation of limnic sediments in the lake began before Allerød, which is quite common for other lakes investigated in the region (Gaidamavičius et al 2011;Stančikaitė et al 2009Stančikaitė et al , 2015Pochocka-Szwarc 2013;StachowiczRybka, Obidowicz 2013;Zawiska et al 2015). The calibrated ages of all the samples are in stratigraphical order, except the ( 14 C) AMS date 13,720-13,577 cal yr BP at the 1011-1012 cm depth.…”

“…Recent research of the palaeoenvironment of the Eastern Baltic region, in which the multi-proxy approach has increasingly been used, addresses questions about the ice-recession pattern (Bitinas 2011;Guobytė, Satkūnas 2011;Kalm et al 2011), vegetation history (Stančikaitė et al 2008(Stančikaitė et al , 2009(Stančikaitė et al , 2015Šeirienė et al 2006;Heikkila et al 2009;Saarse et al 2009;Amon, Saarse 2010;Gaidamavičius et al 2011;Veski et al 2012), the chronology of particular climatic and environmental events in the region (Rinterknecht et al 2006(Rinterknecht et al , 2008, and the postglacial history of numerous lakes (Šeirienė et al 2009;Gryguc et al 2013;Balakauskas et al 2013).…”