Comment: The Palynology of Fluvial Sediments: With Special Reference to Alluvium of Historic Age from the Upper Axe Valley, Mendip Hills, Somerset

Abstract

The distribution of, and the controls of the occurrence of palynomorphs in fluvial sediments are briefly reviewed. In the Wookey Hole Borehole, the distribution of pollen and other organic-walled microfossils is consistent with deposition in a rapidly aggrading fluvial overbank environment, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD. There is little evidence for the action of post-depositional processes except in the highest part of the borehole.