Late Otiran/early Aranuian Vegetation in the Tongariro Area, Central North Island, New Zealand

1 June 1973

journal article
inqua supplement
Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Botany

Vol. 11 (2) , 283-290
https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.1973.10430280

Abstract

Pollen analysis and charcoal identifications of a tephra sequence in the Ton gariro area, North Island, New Zealand, show that bctween 20000 and 14000 years B.P. there was a change from Nothofagus forest, grassland, and shrubland to podocarp-broadleaf forest. This implics a change to a warmer climate during that period.

Keywords

NEW ZEALAND
NOTHOFAGUS FOREST
CENTRAL NORTH
TEPHRA SEQUENCE
LATE OTIRAN/EARLY
OTIRAN/EARLY ARANUIAN
CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATIONS
TON GARIRO
PODOCARP BROADLEAF
GARIRO AREA

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Recent pollen spectra from three localities in the South Island, New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1970
Stratigraphy and chronology of late pleistocene volcanic ash beds in Central North Island, New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1969