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Radiocarbon dates, sedimentology, and pollen counts from the late Holocene sediments of Oblong Tarn, Mount Kenya

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Title Radiocarbon dates, sedimentology, and pollen counts from the late Holocene sediments of Oblong Tarn, Mount Kenya
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BBDYUZ
 
Creator Courtney Mustaphi, Colin
Gajewski, Konrad
Marchant, Rob
Rosqvist, Gunhild
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Cores of the sediments from Oblong Tarn, Mount Kenya, were collected in 1983 and 1986, and were conventional radiocarbon dated to examine late Holocene glacier history of the mountain. Subsequently pollen samples were taken from both cores to create a composite pollen record.
 
Subject Earth and Environmental Sciences
Africa
alpine
lake
Páramo
palaeoecology
lake sediments
vegetation cover
pollen analysis
palaeolimnology
Afromontane
 
Contributor Courtney Mustaphi, Colin J.