Site Data from the European Pollen Database

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Raw Counts / Minimum Metadata (generated on 2006-11-21)

Site nameNile Delta S7
PlaceEgypt
Latitude (dd)31.125
Longitude (dd)31.866667
Altitude (m)1
Collection nameCore S7
HandleNILEDS7
Site descriptionPhysiography: Nile Delta.
Notes
InvestigatorLEROY, Suzanne A. G.
Data compilerAfrican Pollen Database
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.AcaciaAlnusCaesalpinia-typeCapparaceaeEphedraHagenia abyssinicaHyphaene cf. H. thebaicaLoranthaceaeOleaceaePinaceae undiff.PinusPodocarpusQuercus (deciduous)RandiaTamarixTiliaAbutilonApiaceaeArtemisiaAsteraceae subf. Asteroideae undiff.Asteraceae subf. CichorioideaeBoraginaceaeBrassicaceaeCalystegiaCannabaceaeCaryophyllaceaeChenopodiaceae/AmaranthaceaeCucurbitaceaeCyperaceaeFabaceaeLiliaceaeMalvaceae (periporate)OnagraceaePlantaginaceaePoaceaePolygonum persicaria-typeRanunculaceaeRumexTypha cf. T. domingensisTypha cf. T. elephantinaAzolla niloticaPterisAnthocerotales type 1Anthocerotales type 2Anthocerotales type 3IndeterminableRicciaSpore (monolete) undiff.Spore (monolete, psilate)Spore (trilete) undiff.Spore (trilete, psilate)Unknown
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