what is quantitative palynological analysis?

Answer 1

Pollen analysis (Palynology)

The use of palynology within palaeoecology and archaeology is well established. The large number of sites investigated, especially in terms of deep profiles in layered sediments, has created a significant wealth of knowledge relating to past vegetational changes. The delineation of these changes have afforded the definition of "Pollen Zones", with into which an investigator can try to match their own dataset. In other words, the existing data is extremely good for putting ones profiles in context.

Palynology has been used to give indications as to past climatic changes. More recently there have been moves to provide a better quantitative framework to interpreting pollen diagrams in terms of real changes in the vegetation.

Some applications of palynology...
Concepts:

Landscape change - Plants are the most visible element of the landscape, and the most obvious objects of human manipulation.

Lake sedimentation - changes due to shifts in catchment regime or baselevel?

Climatic deterioration (plant migration can be too slow to accurately represent climatic ameleoration, but the faster die-out rate induced by cooling/wetting could be more illustrative in the palaeorecord).

Answer 2

Palyology is the process of studying pollen species to determine the age of the strat they are contained in. By describing pollen in sediments of known age you can categorize a biozone, and then when those pollen are discovered again, they are used to place a date on an unknown layer.

Answer 3

I have no idea, but this link will tell you !!!

http://einstein.uab.es/vrull/pdf/Miocene_mangroves.pdf#search='quantitative%20palynological%20analysis'