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Quaternary, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2020 - 9 articles

Cover Story: This SEM image (credit: Sabine Wulf) shows glass shards from a volcanic ash layer preserved within a Mediterranean marine sediment core. These ash layers in Quaternary sediments can allow for the precise correlation of marine proxy records from different regions such that geographically asynchronous environmental changes may be resolved. They can also be used to date the eruptions which produced them. In the presented paper, ash layers from Eastern Mediterranean marine sediments are characterised, providing a correlation between sediments of the Levantine and Aegean seas and also a precise date for a major Eemian eruption of the Santorini volcano. View this paper.
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Articles (9)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,793 Views
25 Pages

20 March 2020

Beach ridges constructed by pluvial Lake Clover in Elko County, Nevada during the Late Pleistocene were investigated with ground-penetrating radar (GPR). The primary objective was to document the internal architecture of these shorelines and to evalu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,280 Views
22 Pages

Detection and Characterisation of Eemian Marine Tephra Layers within the Sapropel S5 Sediments of the Aegean and Levantine Seas

  • Christopher Satow,
  • Katharine M. Grant,
  • Sabine Wulf,
  • Hartmut Schulz,
  • Addison Mallon,
  • Ian Matthews and
  • John Lowe

13 March 2020

The Eemian was the last interglacial period (~130 to 115 ka BP) to precede the current interglacial. In Eastern Mediterranean marine sediments, it is marked by a well-developed and organic-rich “sapropel” layer (S5), which is thought to r...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,385 Views
3 Pages

Annually Laminated Lake Sediments—Recent Progress

  • Wojciech Tylmann and
  • Bernd Zolitschka

The collection of papers entitled “Annually Laminated Lake Sediments” illustrates the recent progress made in varved sediment research and highlights the variety of methodological approaches and research directions used. The contributions...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,124 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2020

The chronology of observations of two extinct flightless birds in 17th century Mauritius, the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and the red hen (Aphanapteryx bonasia), and what names or descriptions were used for them, is re-examined. It was concluded that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,416 Views
13 Pages

20 January 2020

This research examines the sedimentological evidence of human occupation on different cultural layers at the prehistoric archaeological sites in northeast Thailand. This study focuses on the sedimentological characters of stratigraphic layers identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,414 Views
23 Pages

Modern Analogue Approach Applied to High-Resolution Varved Sediments—A Synthesis for Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees)

  • Teresa Vegas-Vilarrúbia,
  • Valentí Rull,
  • Maria del Carmen Trapote,
  • Min Cao,
  • Antoni Rosell-Melé,
  • Teresa Buchaca,
  • Joan Gomà,
  • Pilar López,
  • Javier Sigró and
  • Elisabet Safont
  • + 5 authors

2 January 2020

In Quaternary paleosciences, the rationale behind analogical inference presupposes that former processes can be explained by causes operating now, although their intensity and rates can vary through time. In this paper we synthesised the results of d...

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