The last climatic cycle at Kopais, central Greece

Thick lacustrine sequences from southern Europe provide an opportunity to d erive continuous records where the chronostratigraphical position of pre-Ho locene stages can be determined with increased confidence. Here, high-resol ution sediment and pollen analytical results from a 60 m core recovered fro m the Kopais basin, central Greece, spanning the interval from the last int erglacial to the early Holocene are presented. The record shows distinct sh ifts between open vegetation periods of increased erosion with sediment inw ashing and forest periods associated with calcite precipitation in the lake . The sequence of major events of the last climatic cycle contained at Kopa is bears strong similarities to other records in Greece, but also reveals t he presence of high-frequency oscillations with higher amplitudes than prev iously seen at other sites.