A.J. Suggitt
A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England
Suggitt, A.J.; Jones, R.T.; Caseldine, C.J.; Huntley, B.; Stewart, J.R.; Brooks, S.J.; Brown, E.; Fletcher, D.; Gillingham, P.K.; Larwood, J.; Macgregor, N.A.; Silva, B.; Thomas, Z.; Wilson, R.J.; Maclean, I.D.
Authors
R.T. Jones
C.J. Caseldine
Professor Brian Huntley brian.huntley@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Staff
J.R. Stewart
S.J. Brooks
E. Brown
D. Fletcher
P.K. Gillingham
J. Larwood
N.A. Macgregor
B. Silva
Z. Thomas
R.J. Wilson
I.D. Maclean
Abstract
Extracting sediment cores for palaeoecological and archaeological investigations has occurred extensively across England since the early 20th century. Surprisingly, there has been comparatively little collation of these valuable publications and potential sources of data; for example, a search on the European Pollen Database (1st Aug 2014 edition) found just 118 core sites for the whole of Great Britain. Here, using a combination of systematic meta-searching and knowledge of the unpublished (‘grey’) literature, we have assembled a meta-database of some 763 sediment cores for palaeoecological records, documented across 273 scientific studies. The majority of these (>90 %) were sediment cores upon which pollen analyses had been performed, but other types of evidence, such as plant macrofossil and faunal records were also identified. We are making this meta-database publicly available, in the hope that it will assist further investigations into Holocene vegetation history, palaeoecology, geoarchaeology and environmental change.
Citation
Suggitt, A., Jones, R., Caseldine, C., Huntley, B., Stewart, J., Brooks, S., …Maclean, I. (2015). A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24(6), 743-747. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-015-0515-1
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 20, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 30, 2015 |
Publication Date | Nov 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Feb 25, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 3, 2015 |
Journal | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany |
Print ISSN | 0939-6314 |
Electronic ISSN | 1617-6278 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 743-747 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-015-0515-1 |
Keywords | Pollen diagram, Radiocarbon, Palynology, Dating, Climatic change. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1436191 |
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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-015-0515-1.
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