Macrofossil analysis will be used to examine climatically induced changes in sand and moss particles. |
A reconstruction of the environment of retting in the city of Turku, Finland, on the basis of diatom, pollen, plant macrofossil and phytolith analyses. |
If one is interested primarily in the succession and development of peatland plant communities, macrofossil analysis will provide the most detailed information about the plants. |
As with other types of macrofossil, species determination is often, but not always, possible. |
Conversely, pollen and macrofossil evidence from near Lake Ontario indicates that cool, boreal forests persisted into the early Holocene. |
In the case of the plant macrofossil analyses at Beccles, flots were collected over a single 0.25mm sieve, rather than a stack of sieves of decreasing apertures. |