Greenhouse conditions in lower Eocene coastal wetlands?-Lessons from Schoningen, Northern Germany.

ABSTRACT: The Paleogene succession of the Helmstedt Lignite Mining District in Northern Germany includes coastal peat mire records from the latest Paleocene to the middle Eocene at the southern edge of the Proto-North Sea. Therefore, it covers the different long- and short-term climate perturbations of the Paleogene greenhouse. 56 samples from three individual sections of a lower Eocene seam in the record capture the typical succession of the vegetation in a coastal wetland during a period that was not affected by climate perturbation. This allows facies-dependent vegetational changes to be distinguished from those that were climate induced. Cluster analyses and NMDS of well-preserved palynomorph assemblages reveal four successional stages in the vegetation during peat accumulation: (1) a coastal ve

SUBMITTER: Lenz OK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806146 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature