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Fossil & Surface Pollen Data


Bumblebee on Tithonia rotundiflora. Photo by Jerome Ward. Pollen grains.  Photo by Eric Grimm. Coring frozen Echo Lake, Vermont.  Photo by Paul Bierman.

Pollen grains which are washed or blown into lakes can accumulate in sediments and provide a record of past vegetation. Different types of pollen in lake sediments reflect the vegetation that was present around the lake, and therefore the climate conditions favorable for that vegetation. The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program distributes the product of various collaborative efforts to collect and organize pollen records from around the globe. These data include the pollen counts and related information, as well as several different derived data sets. Data archived here were last updated in February 2005. Data contributed since March 2005 are available from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database

 
 

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Data archived here were last updated in February 2005.
Data contributed since March 2005 are available from the
Neotoma Paleoecology Database.

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