ABSTRACT

As a result of new palaeobotanical investigations the Kärlich Interglacial is regarded as a warm stage of the younger part of the Cromerian Complex. The vegetation history as recorded for the Kärlich warm stage correlates well with the corresponding part of the Bilshausen Interglacial, Lower Saxony, Germany. The 40Ar/39Ar age of 396,000 ± 20,000 allows the correlation of both sequences with the marine oxygen isotope stage 11.