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==Sequence table== {| class="wikitable" |+ European Pollen Zones |- ! Zone ! Biostratigraphic division ! Dates ! Dominant plant type ! Archaeological periods ! Geological stage |- ! IX | [[Sub-Atlantic]] | 500 BC to present | Spread of grasses and pine and beech woodland | [[Iron Age]] onwards | [[Flandrian interglacial|Flandrian]] |- ! VIII | [[Sub-Boreal]] | 3000–500 BC | Mixed oak forest | [[Bronze Age]] and [[Iron Age]] | Flandrian |- ! VII | [[Atlantic (period)|Atlantic]] | 5500 -3000 BC | Mixed oak forest | [[Neolithic]] and Bronze Age | Flandrian |- ! V and VI | [[Boreal (age)|Boreal]] | c.7700–5500 BC | Pine/birch forest and increasing mixed forest | [[Mesolithic]] | Flandrian |- ! IV | [[Boreal (age)|Pre-Boreal]] | c.8300–7700 BC || Birch forest || Late [[Upper Palaeolithic]] and early–mid [[Mesolithic]] || [[Devensian]] glaciation and Flandrian |- ! III | [[Younger Dryas]] || c. 8800 - 8300 BC || [[Tundra]] || Late Upper Palaeolithic || Devensian |- ! II | [[Allerød oscillation]] || c. 9800 - 8800 BC || Tundra, [[Park Tundra]] and birch forest || Late Upper Palaeolithic || Devensian |- ! Ic | [[Older Dryas]] | c. 10,000 - 9800 BC | Tundra | Late Upper Palaeolithic || Devensian |- ! Ib | [[Bølling oscillation]] | c.10,500–10,000 BC | [[Park Tundra]] | Late Upper Palaeolithic | Devensian |- ! Ia | [[Oldest Dryas]] | c.13,000–10,500 BC | Tundra | Late [[Upper Palaeolithic]] | Devensian |}
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