eSlide exercises

Practical classes using eSlide

1. Interglacial pollen exercise

Various pollen exercises based on a simplified NW European interglacial sequence.

More description to follow.

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2. Australian pollen exercise

In this practical students will examine the transition between pre- and post- colonial vegetation communities in southern Australia.

This is a simple exercise based on 5 pollen taxa and 3 slides that will introduce students to the use of pollen analysis types to uncover vegetation changes following colonial settlement in southern Australia.

Objectives

• Analyse pollen from Balcombe Creek swamp, located in southern Victoria, Australia.
• Calculate percent abundance of key pollen types and construct stratigraphic pollen diagrams
• Determine how colonial settlement affected plant communities around the area

Study site*

The samples in this practical come from a swampy area near a creek called Balcombe. This is located near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The site is very small (<0.2 km2) and permanently waterlogged.

You have been provided with pollen slides from these two time periods: - Pre-colonial time (before ca. 1788 CE) - Post-colonial times (since 1788 CE to present)

Student should analyse three slides (A, D, E) and place them in the correct time period according to their findings.

Developed by Michela Mariani at the University of Nottingham.

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3. Scottish Crannog pollen exercise

Description coming soon…

Developed by Helen Mackay at Durham University.

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4. Intertidal saltmarsh foraminifera exercise

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Developed by [Louuse Callard][Calard] at Newcastle University.

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5. Late-glacial to Holocene pollen sequence from Ffridd-y-Fawnog, North Wales.

Description coming soon…

Developed by Anna Bourne at QMUL.

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