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Kirchner Marsh

Location: Minnesota, USA Latitude (N): 44.27° Longitude (W): 93.12°
Site notes:
Grimm, E. C. 1983
Chronology and Dynamics of Vegetation Change in the Prairie- Woodland Region of Southern Minnesota, U.S.A. The New Phytologist 93:311-350.
AEU SCI QK 1 N53 Sites discussed: Pogonia Bog Pond, Wolsfeld Lake, Stone Lake Tamarack Swamp, Rutz Lake, Lake Carlson, Kirchner Marsh, French Lake.

Holloway, R. G., and V. M. Bryant Jr 1985
Late-Quaternary Pollen Records and Vegetational History of the Great Lakes Region: United States and Canada. In Pollen Records of late-Quaternary North American Sediments, edited by V. M. Bryant Jr and R. G. Holloway, pp. 205-245. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Texas, USA.
Sites discussed: HorseshoeLake (MN), Kylen Lake, Wolf Creek, Itasca, Stevens Pond, Lake Carlson, Kirchner Marsh.

Jacobsen Jr, G. L. 1979
The Palaeoecology of White Pine (Pinus strobus) in Minnesota. Journal of Ecology 67:697-726.
AEU SCI QH 540 J86 Sites discussed: Pickerel Lake, Kirchner Marsh, Bog D Pond, Rossburg Bog, Myrtle Lake, Nelson Pond-Jacobson Lake, Willow River Pond, Ondris Pond.

Winter, T. C. 1962
Pollen Sequence at Kirchner Marsh, Minnesota. Science 128:526-528.
Sites discussed: Kirchner Marsh, Madelia. Presents pollen diagrams from Kirchner Marsh and, for comparison, from Madelia (redrawn from Jelgersma 1962). Kirchner Marsh record shows a marked spruce pollen maximum prior to a level dated at 10,225 yr BP. Marked reduction in oak pollen and increase in grass and forb pollen between about 7200 - 5000 yr BP. Mentions that the Kirchner Marsh pollen record is similar to that from Lake Carlson. Both sites are in the St Croix moraine.

Wright Jr, H. E., T. C. Winter, and H. L. Patten 1963
Two Pollen Diagrams from Southeastern Minnesota: Problems in the Regional Late-Glacial and Postglacial Vegetation History. Geological Society of America Bulletin 74:1371-1396.
AEU SCI QE 1 G341 Sites discussed: Kirchner Marsh, Lake Carlson.

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