POLLEN ANALYSIS OF A GEOPROBE CORE FROM A KARST SINKHOLE AT FT. CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY

Summary

Forty-eight pollen samples were examined from a stratigraphic core collected from the

fill of a broad sink hole that appeared to be somewhat mature on the Ft. Campbell property in

southwest Kentucky. This core was collected because fill in the sink hole was believed to

represent the entire Holocene. The base of the core appears to be bedrock. Pollen samples

were examined at varying intervals, depending on stratigraphy in the core, to provide a

stratigraphic record of vegetation throughout the time period represented by the core. The

pollen record is then compared with an archaeoclimatic model from nearby Clarksville,

Tennessee, to examine possible explanations for changes in local vegetation and to provide

ground truthing for the model.

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