Lateglacial environmental changes interpreted from fossil coleoptera from St. Bees, Cumbria, NW England in Studies in the Lateglacial of North-West Europe.
There is great regional variation in the intensity of response of vegetation to Lateglacial climatic events in Europe. Between 11,000 and 10,000 radiocarbon years BP, a severe climatic deterioration brought about major changes in the species
composition of vegetation in Ireland and Britain. In continental NW Europe most of the same species persisted from the preceding period and changes in vegetation were largely quantitative, although heaths developed over sandy soils. In the Alps
there was little or no change in vegetation at many sites, although there was inflow of inorganic materials into some lake basins. There is weaker evidence for a climatic deterioration which caused upland erosion between 12,000 and 11,800 BP. This can be seen
are essentially all extant, biostratigraphic studies depend upon the interpretation of sequences in terms of environmental change as indicated by the benthonic foraminifera present. Correlation of such environmental stratigraphy over any distance is unreliable
stratigraphic procedures, the error sources and resolution of radiocarbon dating, the basis of Lateglacial chronostratigraphic schemes, and the validity of defining boundaries on continuous curves of environmental change. A general climatostratigraphic scheme