Dendrochronologically dated pine stumps document phase-wise bog expansion at a northwest German site between ca. 6700 and ca. 3400 BC

Achterberg, Inke Elisabeth Maike; Eckstein, Jan; Birkholz, Bernhard; Bauerochse, Andreas; Leuschner, Hanns Hubert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-85-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-85-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-85-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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25 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 25 Jan 2018

Dendrochronologically dated pine stumps document phase-wise bog expansion at a northwest German site between ca. 6700 and ca. 3400 BC

Inke Elisabeth Maike Achterberg, Jan Eckstein, Bernhard Birkholz, Andreas Bauerochse, and Hanns Hubert Leuschner

Data sets

Dendrochronological dates of subfossil pines (Pinus sylvestris L.), relative dates of floating chronology, and peat stratigraphy from site ``TOMO_south'' at Totes Moor, northwest Germany I. E. M. Achterberg, M. Frechen, A. Bauerochse, J. Eckstein, and H. H. Leuschner https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884249

Dendrochronological dates of subfossil pines (Pinus sylvestris L.) of site TOMO_south I. E. M. Achterberg, J. Eckstein, B. Birkholz, et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884247

Peat stratigraphy of site TOMO_south I. E. M. Achterberg, J. Eckstein, B. Birkholz, et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884212

Relative dates of floating chronology of subfossil pines (Pinus sylvestris L.) of site TOMO_south I. E. M. Achterberg, J. Eckstein, B. Birkholz, et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884248

Short summary

At a bog site at Totes Moor in northwest Germany a layer of pine tree stumps at the fen–bog transition was exposed by peat mining. The lateral expansion of ombrotrophic bog between 6703 BC and 3403 BC was reconstructed using the locations and dendrochronological dates of the tree stumps. The spatial pattern relates to the elevation a.s.l. of the mineral base beneath the peat. The temporal distribution of bog expansion pulses relates to climatic variation.