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Holocene Environmental Changes in Lily Lake, Minnesota Inferred from Fossil Diatom and Pollen Assemblages1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard B. Brugam ,
Eric C. Grimm  and
Nancy M. Eyster-Smith
Richard B. Brugam
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois 62026 USA
Eric C. Grimm
Affiliation:
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois 62706 USA
Nancy M. Eyster-Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Natural Sciences, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154 USA
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Abstract

A postglacial core was taken from Lily Lake, a soft-water lake, located on carbonate-poor till in eastern Minnesota. Pollen analysis allowed the reconstruction of watershed vegetation change. Diatom assemblages from the core were compared with 255 surface sediment assemblages from Minnesota, Maine, Labrador, and the Canadian arctic. Late-glacial assemblages were similar to Canadian arctic lakes. During the mid-postglacial period of warmer and drier climate, fossil diatom assemblages at Lily Lake were similar to those in the surface sediment of modern eutrophic hardwater lakes in Central Minnesota. The shift to hardwater diatom assemblages coincided with a shift to prairie species in fossil pollen assemblages at about 8000 yr B.P. At about 3400 year B.P. the fossil diatom assemblage that characterized presettlement times was established.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 53 - 66
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University of Washington

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Contribution No. 293, Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota.

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