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Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland

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Late Cainozoic Floras

of Iceland

15 Million Years of Vegetation and Climate

History in the Northern North Atlantic

Thomas Denk • Friðgeir Grímsson

Reinhard Zetter • Leifur A. Símonarson

Thomas Denk

Department of Palaeobotany

Swedish Museum of Natural History

Stockholm

Sweden

thomas.denk@nrm.se

Reinhard Zetter

University of Vienna

Department of Palaeontology

Althanstrasse 14

1090 Vienna

Austria

reinhard.zetter@univie.ac.at

Friðgeir Grímsson

University of Vienna

Department of Palaeontology

Althanstrasse 14

1090 Vienna

Austria

fridgeir.grimsson@univie.ac.at

Leifur A. Símonarson

Institute of Earth Sciences

University of Iceland

Sturlugata 7

101 Reykjavik

Iceland

leifuras@raunvis.hi.is

ISBN 978-94-007-0371-1

e-ISBN 978-94-007-0372-8

DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0372-8

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Cover illustrations :

Main photo: Studying sediments at Surtarbrandsgil-Brjánslækur, photo by Gerwin F. Gruber

Insert photo: Betula islandica , photo by T. Denk

Insert drawings: Schematic block diagrams showing palaeo-landscape and vegetation types for

Pleistocene interglacials, the early Late Miocene and the Middle Miocene of Iceland, drawings by

N. Frotzler and P. von Knorring

Top row photos: from left to right, SEM micrographs of pollen grains of Tilia from Botn, Apiaceae,

Asteraceae, and Pinus from Tröllatunga, Viscum from Tjörnes, and Salix from Tröllatunga. Photos by

Reinhard Zetter and Friðgeir Grímsson.

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