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A sensitive high-resolution record of late Holocene climatic change from a raised bog in northern England
K.E. Barber
Department of Geography, University of Southampton, S09 5NH, UK
F.M. Chambers
Department of Geography, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
D. Maddy
Department of Geography, University of Southampton, S09 5NH, UK
R. Stoneman
Department of Geography, University of Southampton, S09 5NH, UK
J.S. Brew
50 West Street, King's Cliffe, Peterborough PE8 6XA, UK
Proxy-climatic data in the form of plant macrofossils have been analysed from a 5 m core from Bolton Fell Moss, Cumbria, UK. Detailed analysis of peat from the upper 50 cm of this core is used to demonstrate a strong correlation between changes in the relative proportion of taxa and known climatic changes over the last 1000 years. The record of changes in bog vegetation contained within the peat profile is used to reconstruct changes in bog-surface wetness for the latter half of the Holocene. As bog- surface wetness is directly controlled by the prevailing climatic conditions, this reconstruction can be viewed as a proxy-climate record. Twelve radiocarbon age estimates on the 5m core suggest that between 50 and 500 cm peat accumulated at a relatively constant rate of 12.4 yr cm-1 . The regular sampling intervals thus provide a time series of past bog-surface wetness; spectral analyses of this series indicates that wetness changes are cyclic, with a ca. 800 year periodicity.
Key Words: Raised bog • Holocene • proxy-climatic record • climatic change • time series • Sphagnum • macrofossils • multivariate analysis.
The Holocene, Vol. 4, No. 2,
198-205 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/095968369400400209
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