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Quaternary, Volume 7, Issue 2

June 2024 - 12 articles

Cover Story: The analysis of tephra layers in maar lake sediments of the Eifel shows 14 well-visible tephra during the last glacial cycle from the Holocene to the Eemian (0–130,000 yr b2k). These tephra were analyzed for their petrographic composition, which allows us to connect several tephra to eruption sites. All tephra were dated by the application of ELSA-20 chronology, developed using the late Pleistocene infilled maar lake of Auel and the Holocene lake Holzmaar (0–60,000 yr b2k). We extend the ELSA-20 chronology used in this paper for the millennia of 60,000–130,000 yr b2k (ELSA-23 chronology), which is based on the infilled maar lake records from Dehner, Hoher List, and Jungferweiher. The evaluation of the tephra from the entire last glacial cycle shows that all 14 tephra were close to interstadial warming of the North Atlantic Sea surface temperatures. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,697 Views
18 Pages

A Glacial–Interglacial Malacofauna Record from the Titel Loess Plateau, Serbia, between ~350 and 250 ka

  • Milica G. Radaković,
  • Bojan Gavrilović,
  • Milivoj B. Gavrilov,
  • Rastko S. Marković,
  • Qingzhen Hao,
  • Randall J. Schaetzl,
  • Christian Zeeden,
  • Binggui Cai,
  • Zoran M. Perić and
  • Aleksandar Antić
  • + 2 authors

14 June 2024

We present data on molluscan fauna within the L3 loess unit (and partially within the S3 paleosol) from the key loess section of Veliki Surduk in Serbia. The section correlates to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 8 and late MIS 9 and, thus, spans the time...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,782 Views
28 Pages

12 June 2024

Issues of chronology are central to inferences pertaining to relationships between both contemporaneous and successive prehistoric typo-technological entities (i.e., archaeological cultures), culture–environment relationships, and ultimately th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,209 Views
15 Pages

12 June 2024

Located at the eastern corner of Mediterranean Europe, Greece occupies a critical position for mammal dispersals to/from Europe, Asia, and Africa and constitutes a potential passageway towards Western Europe. During recent decades, numerous fieldwork...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,556 Views
28 Pages

Holocene Paleohydrological Changes Reflected in Lake-Level Fluctuations in Lake Annecy (French Pre-Alps): Climatic Significance and Archeological Implications

  • Michel Magny,
  • Eymeric Morin,
  • Agnès Vérot,
  • Hervé Richard,
  • André Marguet,
  • Robin Brigand,
  • Franck Gabayet,
  • Florent Hinschberger,
  • Jacques Mouthon and
  • Eric Thirault

Lakes are threatened by contemporary climate change and human activities. Paleohydrological records provide important evidence for developing scenarios for future changes in the availability of freshwater resources. This study presents a synthesis of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,008 Views
28 Pages

Palaeoenvironmental Conditions of the Upper Middle Pleistocene Warm Intervals in the Upper Volga Region, Northwestern Russia, Based on Palynological, Paleocarpological and Quantitative Geochronological Data

  • Andrei Panin,
  • Evgeny Konstantinov,
  • Olga Borisova,
  • Inna Zyuganova,
  • Dmitrii Baranov,
  • Natalia Karpukhina,
  • Anna Utkina,
  • Natalia Naryshkina and
  • Redzhep Kurbanov

The climatostratigraphic scale of the Upper Middle Pleistocene in the northwest of the East European Plain contains a number of controversial issues, one of which is the position of the Likhvin (Holstein) Interglacial and lesser warm (interstadial) c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,365 Views
10 Pages

Prolonged Response of River Terrace Flooding to Climate Change

  • Jef Vandenberghe,
  • Xianyan Wang and
  • Xun Yang

From the start of river incision onward, the abandoned terrace surface is only reached by floods during peak discharges. Two main flood facies are distinguished: a relatively high-energetic, coarse-grained facies and a relatively low-energetic, fine-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,397 Views
18 Pages

The Preboreal (11.75–10.70 ka BP) is still the least paleogeographically studied time interval in the central part of the East European Plain. High-resolution multi-proxy studies of lacustrine sediments at the Seltso site located in the Desna R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,127 Views
25 Pages

Relation between Central European Climate Change and Eifel Volcanism during the Last 130,000 Years: The ELSA-23-Tephra-Stack

  • Frank Sirocko,
  • Frederik Krebsbach,
  • Johannes Albert,
  • Sarah Britzius,
  • Fiona Schenk and
  • Michael W. Förster

25 April 2024

The analysis of tephra layers in maar lake sediments of the Eifel shows 14 well-visible tephra during the last glacial cycle from the Holocene to the Eemian (0–130,000 yr b2k). These tephra were analyzed for their petrographic composition, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,285 Views
32 Pages

Middle Pleistocene Hippopotamuses from the Italian Peninsula: An Overview

  • Beniamino Mecozzi,
  • Alessio Iannucci,
  • Marta Arzarello,
  • Marco Carpentieri,
  • Marie-Hélène Moncel,
  • Carlo Peretto,
  • Benedetto Sala and
  • Raffaele Sardella

22 April 2024

Our work presents an updated overview of the Italian Middle Pleistocene records of hippopotamuses, including the two species Hippopotamus antiquus and Hippopotamus amphibius. In addition to reviewing several well-known fossils in the literature, a la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,902 Views
22 Pages

Complex Microlandscape as a Structural Unit of the Study of Spatiotemporal Development of an Ombrotrophic Suboceanic Bog

  • Tamara Ponomareva,
  • Ivan Zubov,
  • Anastasiya Shtang,
  • Alexander Orlov and
  • Svetlana Selyanina

15 April 2024

Ombrotrophic suboceanic bogs are distinguished by a high diversity of complex microlandscapes within the bog massif. Each complex microlandscape is a separate intrabog ecosystem with a specific set of parameters and relationships. This study aims to...

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