Pollen counts from core 7, Clear Lake, Lake County, California

The U. S. Geological Survey recovered eight sediment cores from beneath Clear Lake, Lake County, California, in 1973. The locations of the core sites are shown in fig. 1; lithologic descriptions of the cores, as well as radiographs, have been given by Sims and Rymer (1975a-g, 1976). A list of the procedures followed in sampling the cores and a list of the samples taken may be found in Beaver and others (1975); fish remains from two of the cores have been studied by Casteel and others (1975, 1977a,1977b). This report gives raw count data for 72 pollen samples from core 7, a 27.4-m long core from the southern or Highlands Arm of the lake (fig. 1).

Pollen counts for core 4, a 115-m core from the main basin of the lake, are given in Adam (1979); that core spans the time interval between the end of the penultimate glacial period, about 130,000 years ago, and the present.