Site Data from the European Pollen Database
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Raw Counts / Minimum Metadata (generated on 2006-11-21)
| Site name | Nile Delta S8 |
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| Place | Egypt |
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| Latitude (dd) | 31.216667 |
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| Longitude (dd) | 32.033333 |
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| Altitude (m) | 0 |
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| Collection name | Core S8 |
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| Handle | NILEDS8 |
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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. | Acacia | Alnus | Combretaceae | Hagenia abyssinica | Picea | Pinaceae undiff. | Pinus | Podocarpus | Quercus (deciduous) | Sambucus | Sapotaceae | Syzygium-type | Abutilon | Apiaceae | Artemisia | Asteraceae subf. Asteroideae undiff. | Asteraceae subf. Cichorioideae | Cardiospermum cf. C. halicacabum | Caryophyllaceae | Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae | Cyperaceae | Fabaceae | Lamiaceae | Onagraceae | Peristrophe cf. P. bicalyculata | Plantaginaceae | Poaceae | Polygonum persicaria-type | Ranunculaceae | Rumex | Typha cf. T. domingensis | Typha cf. T. elephantina | Ophioglossum cf. O. polyphyllum | Pteris | Anthocerotales type 1 | Anthocerotales type 2 | Anthocerotales type 3 | Indeterminable | Riccia | Spore (monolete) undiff. | Spore (monolete, psilate) | Spore (trilete) undiff. | Spore (trilete, psilate) | Unknown |
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| 300 | 3972 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 249 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
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| 350 | 4023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 266 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 8 |
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| 1480 | 5006 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 66 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 108 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 18 | 0 |
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| 2260 | 7457 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 17 | 7 |
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