Sprafke, Tobias; Thiel, Christine; Terhorst, Birgit (2014). From micromorphology to palaeoenvironment: The MIS 10 to MIS 5 record in Paudorf (Lower Austria). Catena, 117, pp. 60-72. Elsevier 10.1016/j.catena.2013.06.024
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The loess–palaeosol sequence (LPS) in Paudorf, Lower Austria is characterised by varying dust sedimentation rates, re-deposition with admixture of local rock fragments, erosion and pedogenic overprinting. Detailed semi-quantitative micromorphological analyses reveal the complex genesis of the palaeosols/pedocomplexes and the palaeoenvironmental conditions present during their formation. Our genetic model of landscape formation is underpinned with luminescence (post-IR IRSL) ages; the resulting chronological framework indicates that the basal loess sediment was deposited during marine isotope stage (MIS) 10. The overlying lower pedocomplex experienced a complex genesis in a forest-steppe environment during MIS 9. In the sand–loess sediment of MIS 8 a (forest-)steppe palaeosol (MIS 7) developed. The overlying MIS 6 loess sediment shows several intercalated Cryosols. The upper pedocomplex is a Chernozem (MIS 5c[–a?]) developed in a mixture of re-deposited Cambisol (attributed to MIS 5e), dust and local material. This study shows that the palaeoclimatic conditions in the study region were comparable to those of Central Europe during the last two glacial periods, whereas the conditions were more comparable to the Pannonian Basin climate during the last three interglacials.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Physical Geography > Unit Paleo-Geoecology 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Physical Geography |
UniBE Contributor: |
Sprafke, Tobias |
Subjects: |
500 Science 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology 900 History > 910 Geography & travel |
ISSN: |
0341-8162 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Tobias Norbert Sprafke |
Date Deposited: |
27 Sep 2019 12:14 |
Last Modified: |
29 Jun 2023 21:39 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.catena.2013.06.024 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Middle Pleistocene, Loess, Polygenetic soils, Micromorphology, Post-IR IRSL, Lower Austria |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.128046 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/128046 |
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