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Quaternary, Volume 7, Issue 1

March 2024 - 16 articles

Cover Story: Photo taken from aircraft above Eureka (northern Canada) illustrating contrasting river patterns: the incised meandering river (transporting a relatively reduced amount of sediment) debouching in the braided river (transporting abundant sediment). View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,348 Views
25 Pages

19 March 2024

The East Siberian Sea (ESS) is one of the least studied seas in terms of ostracod fauna. Ostracods are sensitive organisms to environmental changes, and detailed information on their ecology is still required. To fill this knowledge gap, we studied 3...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,512 Views
14 Pages

15 March 2024

This review presents a synthesis of the interaction between the hydro-morphological processes on interfluves and channels within fluvial catchments in permafrost regions. Both in modern and ancient permafrost catchments, this integrated landscape is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,065 Views
8 Pages

6 March 2024

Remains of Rhynchotalona latens (Sarmaja-Korjonen, Hakojärvi et Korhola 2000) were found in the bottom sediments of several glaciogenic lakes in northwestern Russia. Subfossil remains of the species were noted both in the bottom sediments of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,896 Views
18 Pages

29 February 2024

The Middle Pleistocene was characterized by the presence in continental Europe of at least two different species of hippopotamus: Hippopotamus antiquus and H. amphibius. Although suspected, the presence of both hippopotamuses in the same geographical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,326 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2024

The study of rare earth elements (REEs) in marine sediments is a powerful geochemical tool for determining depositional processes and sediment provenance, as well as for understanding paleoenvironmental changes. In this context, we present REE, some...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,601 Views
25 Pages

21 February 2024

It has been proposed that suids were absent from Europe during the post-Olduvai to pre-Jaramillo Early Pleistocene (from less than 1.8 to more than 1.2 Ma) and that their “re-appearance” in the late Early Pleistocene would mark the end of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,698 Views
35 Pages

The Sardinian Mammoth’s Evolutionary History: Lights and Shadows

  • Maria Rita Palombo,
  • Marco Zedda and
  • Daniel Zoboli

17 February 2024

The dwarf Sardinian mammoth, Mammuthus lamarmorai, is a well-known species frequently cited in the literature; however, the fossil record of the Pleistocene Sardinian mammoths mainly consists of isolated remains (an incomplete skeleton from Guardia P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,372 Views
18 Pages

Fluvial Response to Environmental Change in Sub-Tropical Australia over the Past 220 Ka

  • Jacky Croke,
  • Chris Thompson,
  • Annegret Larsen,
  • Mark Macklin and
  • Kate Hughes

9 February 2024

This paper uses a 30 m record of valley alluviation in the Lockyer Creek, a major tributary of the mid-Brisbane River in Southeast Queensland, to document the timing and nature of Quaternary fluvial response. A combination of radiocarbon and opticall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,202 Views
18 Pages

6 February 2024

Seven published and four new pollen records from well-dated sediment cores from six Pleistocene and Holocene maar structures located in the Eifel, Germany, are combined to a pollen stack that covers the entire last 132,000 years. This stack is comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,834 Views
21 Pages

Reconstructing the Last 71 ka Paleoclimate in Northeast China by Integrating Typical Loess Sections

  • Juan Li,
  • Kristofor R. Brye,
  • Zhong-Xiu Sun,
  • Phillip R. Owens,
  • Zhuo-Dong Jiang,
  • Tian-Hao Wang,
  • Meng-Ge Zhang and
  • Qiu-Bing Wang

12 January 2024

Long-term continuous deposits and well-preserved thick loess sections are natural archives for the reconstruction of global climate change. However, the loess sections are often discontinuous owing to soil erosions and accumulations. This study aimed...

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