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Paleoecology: Pollen Core & Landscape Reconstruction

Interactive 3D simulation of a lake-sediment pollen core: scrub through 12,000 years of Holocene history and watch the reconstructed climate and surrounding vegetation — pine, birch, oak, steppe grass, alder — respond to the pollen record layer by layer.

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Lake and bog sediment cores are one of palaeoecology's richest archives: pollen grains preserved layer by layer record which plants dominated the landscape thousands of years ago, and — via calibrated transfer functions — roughly how warm and how wet it was. This simulation lets you scrub through a stylised 12,000-year record, watching the sediment core's pollen bands and the vegetation ring around it shift between pine-birch tundra-steppe, boreal forest, and warm mixed oak woodland as the reconstructed climate changes, then compare any period directly against today's baseline.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D simulation of a lake-sediment pollen core: scrub through a 12,000-year synthetic Holocene record and watch the reconstructed climate and the ring of vegetation around the core shift between tundra-steppe, boreal forest and warm oak woodland, then compare any period against a modern baseline.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install