Comparison of pollen-slide and sieving methods in lacustrine charcoal analyses for local and regional fire history
Comparison of pollen-slide and sieving methods in lacustrine charcoal analyses for local and regional fire history
Carcaillet, C.; Bouvier, M.; Frechette, B.; Larouche, A.C.; Richard, P.J.H.
Holocene 11(4): 467-476
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0959-6836
DOI: 10.1191/095968301678302904
The charcoal content from laminated lake sediments in Quebec, Canada, was estimated from pollen slides and by a sieving method. The resulting charcoal series were compared to estimate the suitability of these two methods to provide a local or regional fire history. The replication of five different charcoal series from the sieving method shows that this method is suitable for fire-history reconstruction.