Site Data from the European Pollen Database

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Raw Counts / Minimum Metadata (generated on 2006-03-07)

Site nameRukatunturi
PlaceFinland: Oulun lääni
Latitude (dd)66.166667
Longitude (dd)29.15
Altitude (m)462
Collection name
HandleRUKATUN
Site descriptionShallow peat above the forest limit. Physiography: hill summit. Surrounding vegetation: calluna,Empetrum,Vaccinium spp.,Festuca.
NotesThis site ceased to exist after 1983. There is a more up to date and fuller diagram published else where with an extra 14C data and more samples, Hicks (1976) and Hicks (1985).
InvestigatorHICKS, Sheila
Data compilerEuropean Pollen Database
Publications
Hicks, S. 1974. A method of using modern pollen rain values to provide a time-scale for pollen diagrams from peat deposits. Memoranda Soc. Fauna Flora Fennica 49:21-33.
Hicks, S. 1985. Problems and possibilities in correlating historical/archaeological and pollen-analytical evidence in a northern boreal environment: An example from Kuusamo Finland. Fennoscandia Archaeologica 2:51-84.
Pollen data
Depth (cm)Radiocarbon years B.P.AlnusBetula pubescensCalluna vulgarisCarpinusCorylusEmpetrumEricales undiff.JuniperusPiceaPinusQuercusRubus chamaemorusSalixTiliaUlmusVaccinium-typeApiaceaeArtemisiaBrassicaceaeCerealia-typeChenopodiaceaeCyperaceaeElymusEpilobiumFilipendulaHumulus/Cannabis sativaLamiaceaeMelampyrumPlantago lanceolataPoaceaePotentillaRosaceaeRubiaceaeRumex acetosaSaxifragaSolidago-typeTaraxacum-typeUrticaDiphasiastrum alpinum-typeDryopteris-typeHuperzia selagoLycopodium annotinumLycopodium clavatumPteridiumPteridophyta (monolete) undiff.SelaginellaSphagnumUnknown
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