Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-85-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-85-2018
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

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (21 Jun 2017) by Dominik Fleitmann
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (20 Jul 2017) by Dominik Fleitmann
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 Aug 2017) by Dominik Fleitmann
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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.