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Radiocarbon Sample Information

Gd-825 Łukcze Ł-III-4    Age:  11160 ± 110 BP 
Sample name:  Łukcze Ł-III-4
Submitter:  Bałaga Krystyna
Institution:
 
 
 Uniwersytet im. Marii Curie Skłodowskiej
 Zakład Geografii Fizycznej
 ul. Akademicka 19   20-033 Lublin

Collector:
Date of collection:
 Bałaga Krystyna
 May 1979

Additional information:  Depth 400 to 410cm.
Material of sample:  gyttja
Contamination:   
Type of site:  core
Field of study:  botany

Sample location:
Site name:  Łęczno
Latitude:  51 30 00N
Longitude:  23 00 00E
Detailed description of the sample location:
W Łęczno Lake Dist, SW part of Lublin Polesie
Environment description:
Small eutrofic Lake Łukcze and mire at W shore of lake. Two profiles (TŁ & ŁIII), ca 10m
apart and ca 20m from shore, were taken in May 1979.
Lake Lukcze has two parts linked by channel with NE, E, and S lake shores covered
with alder, and fragments of devastated pine Vaccinio myrtilli-Pirieturn forest and
mixed Piao-Quercetum forest in SE part. From SW and NW, community of
Salici-Franguletuni connects lake with mire covered by fragments of Caricetum
lasiocarpae, C limosae, C diandrae, and Sphagnetum medio-rubelli. Eleven local pollen
assemblage zones were defined, 5 based on data from Łukcze TŁ and Łukcze III
profiles.

References to literature:  Radiocarbon Data List X

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