Site Data from the European Pollen Database
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Raw Counts / Minimum Metadata (generated on 2006-11-21)
| Site name | Nile Delta S6 |
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| Place | Egypt |
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| Latitude (dd) | 31.108333 |
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| Longitude (dd) | 31.716667 |
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| Altitude (m) | 2 |
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| Collection name | Core S6 |
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| Handle | NILEDS6 |
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| Site description | Physiography: Nile Delta. |
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| Notes | |
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| Investigator | LEROY, Suzanne A. G. |
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| Data compiler | African Pollen Database |
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Publications
| Coutellier, V., and D.J. Stanley. 1987. Late Quaternary stratigraphy and paleogeography of the eastern Nile Delta, Egypt. Marine Geology 77:257-275. |
| Foucault, A., and D.J. Stanley. 1989. Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic oscillations in East Africa recorded by heavy minerals in the Nile Delta. Nature 339:44-46. |
| Leroy, S.A.G. 1992. Palynological evidence of Azolla nilotica Dec. in recent Holocene of the eastern Nile Delta and palaeoenvironment. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 1:43-52. |
| Stanley, D.J., H. Sheng, and Y. Pan. 1988. Heavy minerals and provenance of late Quaternary sands, eastern Nile Delta. Journal of African Earth Sciences 7:735-741. |
Pollen data
| Depth (cm) | Radiocarbon years B.P. | Ericaceae | Pinaceae undiff. | Pinus | Podocarpus | Aerva | Apiaceae | Asteraceae subf. Asteroideae | Caryophyllaceae | Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae undiff. | Cyperaceae | Onagraceae | Poaceae | Polygonum persicaria-type | Typha cf. T. domingensis | Typha cf. T. elephantina | Azolla nilotica | Indeterminable | Riccia | Spore (monolete, psilate) |
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| 550 | 3605 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 154 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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| 565 | 3677 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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| 580 | 3750 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 91 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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| 620 | 3944 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 540 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
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