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In this paper, the results of pollen analysis and oxygen-isotope investigations of two new cores from Mondsee are discussed. The climatic progression from the end of the penultimate glaciation to the end of the Eemian interglacial is compared with reconstructions from Bispingen and Gräbern, northern Germany. The rise in temperature, between thePinus phase and the climate optimum in theCorylus phase, appears to have occurred in two steps. Evidence for climatic deterioration is first recorded during thePicea-Pinus phase, i.e. after theCarpinus phase. These reconstructions are in agreement with those based on the Gräbern pollen data, but contrast with recent reconstructions based on the Bispingen pollen profile and the GRIP ice core from Greenland.
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Drescher-Schneider, R., Papesch, W. A contribution towards the reconstruction of Eemian vegetation and climate in central Europe: First results of pollen and oxygen-isotope investigations from Mondsee, Austria. Veget Hist Archaebot 7, 235–240 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01146196
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