Late Pleistocene loess-paleosol and vegetation successions at Tarnawce (San River valley, Carpathians foothills, Poland)

The Tarnawce I profile, which occurs in the marginal eastern part of the Polish Westem Carpathians, contains loesses sq representing three last glacial cycles. In this paper we report the results of pollen analysis of the Eemian-Early Glacial pedocomplex and of the Lower plcni-Visrulian loesses with an interstadiał paleosol. The pollen spectra of22 samples were determined. The pollen diagram was divided into 7 local pollen assemblage zones (L PAZ). Interglacial climatic optimum was recorded with the Eemian type of vegetation in the T-4 zone. The coldest conditions occurred during the accumulation of loess, which separates the interglacial and interstadiał soils.