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Duration of Last Interglacial Conditions in Northwestern Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Polychronis C. Tzedakis ,
Michael R. Frogley  and
Timothy H.E. Heaton
Polychronis C. Tzedakis*
Affiliation:
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Michael R. Frogley
Affiliation:
Centre for Environmental Research, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom
Timothy H.E. Heaton
Affiliation:
NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom
*
1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

A new astronomical calibration method for long pollen records from southern Europe is applied to the last interglacial interval of the Ioannina sequence, northwestern Greece. This shows that the last interglacial in this region, as defined by the presence of forest communities, lasted ca. 15,500 yr, from 127,300 to 111,800 yr B.P. Interglacial conditions developed within marine isotope substage (MIS) 5e and persisted into MIS 5d, lagging changes in global ice volume.

Type
Research Article
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , July 2002 , pp. 53 - 55
Copyright
University of Washington

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