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From Source to Sink: Sedimentary Archives and Its Palaeo-Environmental Implications During Quaternary

A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 705

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Yan Li

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School of Ocean Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: geo-environmental evolution; sedimentation; quaternary geology; geochronology
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Dear Colleagues,

The source-to-sink (S2S) system is one of the most important sedimentary routes, which extends from the mountain, across the continental margins, and to the deep sea. In the S2S system, tremendous sediments have been eroded, transported and deposited in the sedimentary basin. These are regarded as ideal documents for better understanding the global-regional environmental and climatological changes.

We welcome you to submit a paper to this Special Issue “From Source to Sink: Sedimentary Archives and Its Palaeo-Environmental Implications During Quaternary”. This Special Issue seeks to investigate all aspects of the Quaternary clastic sedimentary process and the environmental significance in the source-to-sink systems in different regions and timescales. Studies in the coastal and deep-sea areas are especially welcome.

Dr. Yan Li
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sedimentology
  • seismic and sequence stratigraphy
  • chronology
  • facies analysis
  • sedimentary record
  • catastrophic sedimentation
  • micropaleontology sedimentology

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Allerød–Younger Dryas Boundary (12.9–12.8 ka) as a “New” Geochronological Marker in Late Glacial Sediments of the Eastern Baltic Region
by Olga Druzhinina, Ivan Skhodnov, Kasper van den Berghe and Ksenia Filippova
Quaternary 2025, 8(2), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8020028 - 6 Jun 2025
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This paper is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and drivers of the abrupt environmental shift at the onset of the Younger Dryas. The goal of this study is to identify key parameters that characterize the Allerød–Younger Dryas boundary, 12.9–12.8 [...] Read more.
This paper is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and drivers of the abrupt environmental shift at the onset of the Younger Dryas. The goal of this study is to identify key parameters that characterize the Allerød–Younger Dryas boundary, 12.9–12.8 ka in sedimentary sections, and are representative of broader paleobasin dynamics in the eastern Baltic region. Two new Late Glacial sediment archives, the Kulikovo and Sambian, provide data on this time interval. Geochronological and lithological (grain size and loss on ignition) analyses of the sequences indicate a change in sedimentation during 12.9–12.8 ka, which is manifested by a peak of terrigenous, coarser-grained material and an accompanying peak of organic matter in sediments. A review of the published data shows that this lithological situation is also characteristic of other paleobasins in the eastern Baltic region and beyond for layers dated to the onset of the Younger Dryas. This probably indicates an environmental event that caused a short-term increased input and deposition of organic matter, accompanied by a surge in erosional processes. The environmental shift triggered by the event is also recorded in a remarkable drop in pollen concentration and species diversity in the overlying layer. The sediment horizon in Late Glacial (Allerød–Younger Dryas) sequences corresponding to these parameters can be considered an important and reliable geochronological marker of the 12.9–12.8 ka interval. The organic-rich layer in the Kulikovo section, as well as other similar layers in the Baltic, can be considered a “black mat” phenomenon related to the onset of the Younger Dryas. Full article
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