DEPARTMENT OF STRATIGRAPHY
GEOBOTANICAL LABORATORY

	Contact person Beth Stavngaard - bes@geus.dk

Our laboratory was established at the Geological Survey of Denmark in 1938 with the foundation of the Bog Laboratory, later it became part of the Geobotanical Department, and now of the Department of Environmental History and Climate Change. The laboratory is now designed for a range of diagnostic and interpretative services with special focus on Quaternary sediments from the north-Atlantic region (e.g. Denmark, Greenland, Faeroes):

• Physical determinations
  • loss-on-ignition
  • gravimetric carbonates
  • magnetic susceptibility
• Sample preparation
  • pollen, relative and quantitative
    • modern
    • fossil (after Erdtman's method [ see e.g. Faegri & Iversen
  • pollen trapping (monitoring)
    • sample sorting and preparation
  • dinoflagellate cysts
  • diatoms
    • lake sediments
    • marine sediments (the laboratory has special expertise in gaining increased recovery in problematic sections using heavy liquid concentration)
• Quantitative pollen analysis
  • total counts and identification
  • participation in the European Pollen Monitoring Programme

Faegri, K. & Iversen, J., 1975: Textbook of pollen analysis. 295 pp. New York: Hafner Press.

Poulsen, N. E., Gudmundsson, L., Hansen, J. M., & Husfeldt, Y., 1990: Palynological preparation techniques, a new macerationtank-method and other modifications. Geological Survey of Denmark. Series C 10 , 22 pp.

Edited by

Edited by:
E. Beth Stavngaard, GEUS
Niels E. Poulsen, GEUS