Pollen record of a sediment core from the Neualbenreuth Maar, Germany

The Neualbenreuth Maar (49°58' N, 12°28' E, 601 m asl) is a filled up former maar lake, located within a presently swampy depression 2.5 km ESE of the village Neualbenreuth (NE-Bavaria, Germany). It represents one of four hitherto known volcanic structures of Pleistocene age along the NNW-SSE trending Tachov fault zone. The maar structure was detected by gravity surveys and was subsequently confirmed by the recovery of lake sediments by an exploratory drilling campaign in 2015. Within the scope of a pilot study, a set of 141 pollen samples collected from sediment depths between 17.7 to 96.0 m below the recent surface. The samples were analyzed in order to evaluate the potential of the sequence for detailed palaeoenvironmental investigations, and to estimate the age of the sedimentary record.