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<p>This article presents results of diatom analysis of seven sediment cores taken from various depths of the Gulf of Gdańsk between the Hel Peninsula and the coast of Gdańsk and Gdynia. Further eight cores were drilled in the northern, southern and central part of the Vistula Lagoon. The present investigations enabled the determination of: (i) differentiation of diatom assemblage zones, (ii) correlation of palaeoecological units with reference to the following stages: Mastogloia Sea, Littorina Sea, Post-Littorina Sea, including the latest environmental changes associated with an anthropogenic factor, (iii) description of the defined diatom biofacies based on statistical analysis, (iiii) reconstruction of spatial and temporal development of both basins with the emphasis on the role of inflows of sea and river waters.</p>
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This article presents results of diatom analysis of seven sediment cores taken from various depths of the Gulf of Gdańsk between the Hel Peninsula and the coast of Gdańsk and Gdynia. Further eight cores were drilled in the northern, southern and central part of the Vistula Lagoon. The present investigations enabled the determination of: (i) differentiation of diatom assemblage zones, (ii) correlation of palaeoecological units with reference to the following stages: Mastogloia Sea, Littorina Sea, Post-Littorina Sea, including the latest environmental changes associated with an anthropogenic factor, (iii) description of the defined diatom biofacies based on statistical analysis, (iiii) reconstruction of spatial and temporal development of both basins with the emphasis on the role of inflows of sea and river waters.

Diatom biofacies in the SW Gulf of Gdańsk and the Vistula Lagoon (the southern Baltic Sea) as indicators of the basin evolution in the Middle and Late Holocene

Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

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This article presents results of diatom analysis of seven sediment cores taken from various depths of the Gulf of Gdańsk between the Hel Peninsula and the...

Diatom biofacies in the SW Gulf of Gdańsk and the Vistula Lagoon (the southern Baltic Sea) as indicators of the basin evolution in the Middle and Late Holocene

Published Online: Apr 12, 2013

Page range: 70 - 88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13545-013-0052-4

Keywords
diatoms, biofacies, paleoecology, Holocene, Gulf of Gdańsk, Vistula Lagoon

© 2013 Versita Warsaw

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Diatom biofacies in the SW Gulf of Gdańsk and the Vistula Lagoon (the southern Baltic Sea) as indicators of the basin evolution in the Middle and Late Holocene

Published Online: Apr 12, 2013

Page range: 70 - 88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13545-013-0052-4

Keywordsdiatoms, biofacies, paleoecology, Holocene, Gulf of Gdańsk, Vistula Lagoon

© 2013 Versita Warsaw

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
diatoms, biofacies, paleoecology, Holocene, Gulf of Gdańsk, Vistula Lagoon