Observations on Bog and Pollen Stratigraphy of the Des Moines Glacial Lobe, lowa

Authors

P. H. Walker, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Grace S. Brush, State University of Iowa

Document Type

Research

Abstract

As part of an investigation into the effect of environmental changes of landscape and soils on the Des Moines lobe (Cary till), three deep bogs (Colo, Jewell, McCulloch) were examined in detail. The center profile of each has a surface peat underlain by deep, dark-colored, calcareous silts; these in turn are underlain by a second peat zone which passes into basal calcareous silts and eventually to till. Preliminary pollen data on the Colo bog shows six zones. The key zones are Zone 1 (0 to 75 inches), in which the pollen is of dominantly herbaceous genera indicating an open grassland environment, and Zones IV and V (102 to 155 to 212 inches) dominated by pollen of forest species. The changes in bog and pollen strata were probably related to a marked change from a cool climate in the early postglacial to a warmer climate in the latter part of the postglacial continuing to the present.

Publication Date

1963

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

70

Issue

1

First Page

253

Last Page

260

Copyright

©1963 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Walker, P. H. and Brush, Grace S. (1963) "Observations on Bog and Pollen Stratigraphy of the Des Moines Glacial Lobe, lowa," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 70(1), 253-260.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol70/iss1/50