Late Saalian and Eemian Interglacial at the Struga site (Garwolin Plain, central Poland)
1 1 | Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, al. Kraśnicka 2d, 20-718 Lublin, Poland |
2 | The Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Rakowiecka 4, 00-975 Warszawa, Poland |
Online publication date: 2018-12-24
Publication date: 2018-12-24
Acta Palaeobotanica 2018; 58(2): 219–229
ABSTRACT
The paper reports pollen analyses of 47 samples from palaeolake sediments at WH-15 Struga near
Puznówka on the Garwolin Plain in central Poland. The pollen succession covers Late Saalian (MIS-6) and
fully developed Eemian (MIS-5e) successions. The Late Saalian section is well developed (more than 2 m thick)
and contains sub-zones reflecting the alternating dominance of steppe-tundra and boreal forest communities.
The analysed Eemian succession is an uncommon succession described as a variant with early appearance and
culmination of Tilia. In these terms, the successions of WH-15 Struga resemble those of sites of the Eemian
interglacial known from the vicinity of Warsaw: Błonie, Warszawa-Żoliborz and Warszawa-Wola. The WH-15
Struga site is one of several recently discovered fossil sites of Eemian lakes on the Garwolin Plain, constituting
the southern fragment of the extensive Eemian lakeland in the Polish Lowland.