TY - JOUR ID - 51188 TI - Exploratory palynological analysis of Quaternary lacustrine deposits around Damavand volcano, Northern Iran JO - Geopersia JA - GEOPE LA - en SN - 2228-7817 AU - Sharma, Jyoti AU - Alimohammadian, Habib AU - Bhattacharyya, Amavala AU - Ranhotra, Parminder AU - Djamali, Morteza AU - Scharrer, Steffen AU - Bruch, Angela AD - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53- University Road, Lucknow, 226007, India AD - Environmental and Palaeomagnetism Laboratory, Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), Tehran, Iran AD - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53- University Road, Lucknow -226007, India AD - IMEP CNRS UMR 6116, Eurôpole Méditerranéen de I′Arbois, Pavillon Villemin BP 80 , 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 04, France AD - Senckenberg Research Institute, Research Center ‘The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans’ of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt/Main, Germany Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 10 KW - Iran KW - Damavand Volcano KW - Quaternary KW - pollen KW - vegetation DO - 10.22059/jgeope.2014.51188 N2 - Palynological analyses from exposed palaeolacustrine deposits located at the flanks of Damavand volcano, in the central AlborzMountains in Northern Iran, provide a broad idea of the temporal variation of vegetation according to climate changes during a rangeof limited time intervals during the Quaternary period. This research reveals that the regional vegetation of the study area had been asemi-arid mountain steppe since the early Quaternary. However, moderate expansions of open woodlands and aquatic/marshy taxaindicate less arid climatic conditions. Some of these comparatively less arid phases during the last 70 ka are contemporaneous with theclimatic amelioration phases during previous glacial periods in the Himalayan region. Although the results are scattered through time,they clearly show the potential of the study area for further palynological investigations with the aim of understanding the regionalvegetation response on global climate changes in Northern Iran UR - https://geopersia.ut.ac.ir/article_51188.html L1 - https://geopersia.ut.ac.ir/article_51188_870d9f9f6bb8e9ab0b793e54a044f1dd.pdf ER -