Kabailienė, M., Vaikutienė, G., Macijauskaitė, L., Rudnickaitė, E., Guobytė, R., Kisielienė, D., Gryguc, G., Mažeika, J., Motuza, G., Šinkūnas, P.
Lateglacial and Holocene environmental history in the area
of Samogitian Upland (NW Lithuania)
Abstract. Pollen, plant macroscopic fossil and carbonate
analyses supplemented with 14C dating were applied for sediment sections of
Lopaičiai Kettle and Pakastuva Lake. The new data obtained from two sediment
cores were used to reconstruct vegetation cover and environmental changes
during Lateglacial and Holocene in the Samogitian Upland (NW Lithuania).
Different burial conditions of dead-ice blocks caused different times of lake
sediment start in studied sites. The depositional and vegetation history is
traced at the inception of pre-Allerød time in sediment section from the
Lopaičiai core. However, sediment section from the Pakastuva core provides
paleoenvironmental information starting only from the very beginning of
Holocene. The study results shed more light on the environmental development
during the Lateglacial and Holocene of the specific ice marginal area, which
belongs to interlobate insular upland.