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Quaternary, Volume 2, Issue 3

2019 September - 10 articles

Cover Story: New insights into the geology of the Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in the Middle Cam valley provide a unique and detailed view of the sediment architecture of these valley-fill and interfluve sediments. The structural geology of the bedrock and the stratigraphic arrangement of younger deposits are used to explain the landscape evolution of the area. View this paper.
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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,982 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2019

The Pyrenean range (NE Iberian Peninsula) has some favourable lithological and climatic conditions (iron-rich parent materials and udic moisture regimes) for the formation of acid sulfate soils (ASS) that have not been reported on from the region unt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Peatlands: Outstanding Witnesses of the Environmental Evolution of Southern Europe)
  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,615 Views
26 Pages

18 September 2019

The region comprising of East Central Europe, South East Europe and Turkey contributed to the SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis) global database with stable carbon and oxygen isotope time-series from 18 speleothems from 14 caves. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Speleothem Records and Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,958 Views
26 Pages

Significance of the High Abundance of Pentacyclic Triterpenyl and Hopenyl Acetates in Sphagnum Peat Bogs from Northern Spain

  • Veneranda López-Días,
  • Angeles G. Borrego,
  • Carlos G. Blanco,
  • Achim Bechtel and
  • Wilhelm Püttmann

21 August 2019

Global warming is expected to increase the rate of CH4 emission from acidic peatlands leading to an increased interest on its mechanisms of formation. The main routes are through the reduction of CO2 by molecular hydrogen and through the cleavage of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Peatlands: Outstanding Witnesses of the Environmental Evolution of Southern Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,951 Views
17 Pages

Last Interglacial Climate in Northern Sweden—Insights from a Speleothem Record

  • Martin Finné,
  • Sakari Salonen,
  • Norbert Frank,
  • Karin F. Helmens,
  • Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau,
  • Michael Deininger and
  • Steffen Holzkämper

20 August 2019

Continental records with absolute dates of the timing and progression of climatic conditions during the Last Interglacial (LIG) from northern Europe are rare. Speleothems from northern Europe have a large potential as archives for LIG environmental c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,455 Views
31 Pages

12 August 2019

Archaeological excavations at the Cueva del Medio performed during the 1980s and 1990s yielded an important record of both faunal and stone tool remains, as well as data, to discuss issues that occurred during the Terminal Pleistocene. Due to that, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Changing Nature of Socio-Ecological Interactions in the Americas: From PalaeoAmerican Through to Present Day)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
14,423 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2019

This study focused on the analysis of land-use/land-cover changes and their impact on flood runoff, flood hazards and inundation, focusing in the Pampanga River basin of the Philippines. The land-cover maps for the years 1996 and 2016 were generated...

  • Review
  • Open Access
115 Citations
17,854 Views
38 Pages

The Asian Summer Monsoon: Teleconnections and Forcing Mechanisms—A Review from Chinese Speleothem δ18O Records

  • Haiwei Zhang,
  • Yassine Ait Brahim,
  • Hanying Li,
  • Jingyao Zhao,
  • Gayatri Kathayat,
  • Ye Tian,
  • Jonathan Baker,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Hai Cheng
  • + 2 authors

23 July 2019

Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability significantly affects hydro-climate, and thus socio-economics, in the East Asian region, where nearly one-third of the global population resides. Over the last two decades, speleothem δ18O records from Chi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Speleothem Records and Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,054 Views
20 Pages

18 July 2019

The Central American Dry Corridor (CADC) is the most densely populated area of the Central American Isthmus and is subject to the greatest variability in precipitation between seasons. The vegetation of this region is composed of Dry Tropical Forests...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,984 Views
29 Pages

The Geology of the Middle Cam Valley, Cambridgeshire, UK

  • Steve Boreham and
  • Karolina Leszczynska

12 July 2019

This study offers a new understanding of the stratigraphy and context of the Pleistocene (including Elsterian and Weichselian) and Holocene deposits of the Middle Cam valley, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, and provides a unique and detailed view of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,178 Views
19 Pages

Using Annual Resolution Pollen Analysis to Synchronize Varve and Tree-Ring Records

  • Martin Theuerkauf,
  • Eike Engelbrecht,
  • Nadine Dräger,
  • Michael Hupfer,
  • Almut Mrotzek,
  • Anja Prager and
  • Tobias Scharnweber

Fossil wood and varved lake sediments allow proxy analysis with exceptionally high, (sub-)annual resolution. Both archives provide dating through ring and layer counting, yet with different accuracy. In wood, counting errors are small and can be elim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Annually Laminated Lake Sediments)
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