Palynological analysis of the late Early Pleistocene sediments from Queque Cave in Guangxi, South China
- Author(s)
- S.-P. Li, J.F. Li, David-Kay Ferguson, N.-W. Wang, X.-X. He, J.-X. Yao
- Abstract
Palynomorphs extracted from the sediments in Queque Cave of the late Early Pleistocene in Chongzuo, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were investigated to reconstruct the paleoenvironment in the study area. While the sediments are pollen-poor, they are sufficiently productive to carry out a paleoenvironmental analysis. The source vegetation reflected by the palynomorphs from the unfossiliferous layer was temperate to warm temperate deciduous and evergreen broadleaved forest while it was warm temperate to subtropical deciduous and evergreen broadleaved forest from the mammalian horizons. Climatic parameters obtained using the Coexistence Approach indicate that the unfossiliferous layer (MAT=11.3-15.4°C, MAP=601.1-1076.1mm) was cooler and drier than that from the mammal-bearing layers (MAT=12.6-18.6°C, MAP=784.7-1523.1mm).
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Palaeontology
- External organisation(s)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ministry of Land and Resources of China
- Journal
- Quaternary International
- Volume
- 354
- Pages
- 24-34
- No. of pages
- 11
- ISSN
- 1040-6182
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.053
- Publication date
- 12-2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105117 Palaeobotany
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/ce6bea0d-e928-46b6-b96e-e7cdbf9330b3