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1. Climate change and the distribution of frozen soil in 1980–2010 in northern northeast China

Author:
Zhongqiong Zhang; Qingbai Wu; Xueyi Xun; Boxin Wang; Xunan Wang
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 230-241
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
DDT (pesticide); air temperature; altitude; atmospheric precipitation; carbon; climate change; cold zones; desertification; ecological succession; energy balance; freezing; frozen soils; infrastructure; latitude; longitude; permafrost; risk; thawing; wind speed; China
Abstract:
... Frozen soil is an important environmental factor in cold regions. Permafrost change, driven by a warming climate, will increase the risk of permafrost thawing, i.e., carbon release accelerating, suprapermafrost water lowering, desertification strengthening, and infrastructure destructing. Based on the energy balance between the atmosphere and the soil, mean annual air temperature (MAAT), annual pr ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.015

2. Dietary reconstruction of Plio-Pleistocene proboscideans from the Carpathian Basin of Romania using enamel microwear

Author:
Bogdan S. Haiduc; Bogdan G. Răţoi; Gina M. Semprebon
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 222-229
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Pliocene epoch; bark; basins; branches; browsing; ecology; enamel; grasses; grazing; leaves; teeth; Romania
Abstract:
... The paleodietary ecology of Late Pliocene-Late Pleistocene proboscideans (Anancus arvernensis, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Mammut borsoni, Mammuthus meridionalis, Mammuthus trogontheriii and Mammuthus primigenius) from two Moldavian Republic localities and eight Romanian localities of the Carpathian Basin was investigated using enamel microwear. Results show a great degree of dietary flexibility as we ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.039

3. Eemian and Vistulian (Weichselian) development of the meltout depression on the watershed between the Mroga and Mrożyca Rivers (Central Poland) based on lithological and pollen analysis

Author:
Aleksandra Majecka; Zofia Balwierz; Jacek Forysiak; Juliusz Twardy
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 79-95
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
fossils; glaciation; ice; morphogenesis; pollen analysis; research projects; sediment deposition; sediments; temperate zones; watersheds; Poland
Abstract:
... The lithological and palaeobotanical research conducted in a closed-drainage depression located in the watershed zone between the Mroga and Mrożyca Rivers (Central Poland) allowed for the reconstruction of its palaeogeography in the period subsequent to the retreat of the last ice sheet (Wartanian Stage of the Odranian Glaciation). The purpose of this article is to gather and synthesise the obtain ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.012

4. Eemian and Vistulian (Weichselian) paleoenvironmental changes: A multi-proxy study of sediments and mammal remains from the Ławy paleolake (Eastern Poland)

Author:
Anna Hrynowiecka; Marcin Żarski; Gwidon Jakubowski; Adam Nadachowski; Kamilla Pawłowska; Dominik Pawłowski; Marcin Szymanek; Dariusz Nast
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 131-146
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Cladocera; Ostracoda; aquatic ecosystems; basins; climate; fossils; hydrology; lakes; mammals; molluscs; paleoecology; pollen; radiocarbon dating; rivers; sediments; streams; watersheds; Poland
Abstract:
... The Eemian-Vistulian developmental history of the Ławy paleolake (Eastern Poland) has been studied by analysing records of micro- (pollen, Cladocera, Ostracoda), macrofossils (molluscs, mammal remains), the lithological record and radiocarbon dating from a 5.30 m sediment core. At Ławy, in the Paterebo stream valley, well-preserved mammal fossil remains accompanied by organic deposits have also be ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.033

5. Green, grey and black: A comparative study of Sierra de las Navajas (Mexico) and Lipari (Italy) obsidians

Author:
P. Donato; L. Barba; R. De Rosa; G. Niceforo; A. Pastrana; S. Donato; G. Lanzafame; L. Mancini; G.M. Crisci
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 369-390
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
X-radiation; X-ray diffraction; atomic absorption spectrometry; bubbles; chemical composition; color; crystal structure; energy-dispersive X-ray analysis; fluorescence; iron; rare earth elements; scanning electron microscopes; scanning electron microscopy; trade; Aeolian Islands; Central America; Italy; Mexico
Abstract:
... Sierra de Las Navajas (State of Hidalgo, Mexico) and Lipari (Aeolian Islands, Italy) were among the most important sources for obsidian trade in Mesoamerica and in the Mediterranean during the Stone Age. In this paper obsidians from these two localities were compared in terms of their aspect, chemical composition, microcrystallinity and microvesiculation. In Sierra de las Navajas, the typical deep ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.021

6. Late Holocene aridification recorded in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of soils from Nainital, Lesser Himalaya

Author:
Imran Khan; Mohd Amir; Debajyoti Paul; Pankaj Srivastava
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 195-203
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Alfisols; B horizons; C3 plants; C4 plants; Holocene epoch; atmospheric precipitation; carbon; clay; ecosystems; geochemistry; illuviation; microstructure; monsoon season; nitrogen; soil micromorphology; soil organic matter; stable isotopes; vegetation; Himalayan region; India
Abstract:
... This study incorporates micromorphology, geochemistry, and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions of soil organic matter (δ13C and δ15N) in a radiocarbon-dated Holocene Alfisol section from Nainital, northwest Himalaya, India to understand pedogenic and vegetation response to changing Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). Soil micromorphology suggests this soil to be an Alfisol that formed in semi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.044

7. Long (MIS 5e – 3) environmental history of a paleolake in central Poland recorded in the succession from Kubłowo

Author:
Joanna Mirosław-Grabowska; Monika Niska; Małgorzata Roman
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 26-42
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
macrophytes; sediments; littoral zone; temperature; lakes; Cladocera; nitrogen; paleoecology; glaciation; ecological succession; organic carbon; species diversity; stable isotopes; pollen; climatic factors; fauna; Central European region; Poland
Abstract:
... One of the longest (above 7 m thick) uninterrupted Eemian-Vistulian (Weichselian) pollen successions in Poland is known from Kubłowo (central Poland). The huge importance of this succession is manifested in the possibility of study the evolution of the lake environment under the influence of changing, from interglacial to glacial climatic conditions.The reconstruction of the environmental changes ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.06.027

8. Modern and ancient pedogenesis as revealed by Holocene fire - Northern Apennines, Italy

Author:
Livia Vittori Antisari; Alberto Agnelli; Giuseppe Corti; Gloria Falsone; Chiara Ferronato; Sara Marinari; Gilmo Vianello
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 264-276
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Abies alba; Podzols; Quercus; altitude; charcoal; climate change; crystal proteins; forest damage; humans; insecticidal proteins; iron; organic matter; paleoecology; paleosolic soil types; palynology; permafrost; pollen; snow; soil formation; soil horizons; surface water; temperate zones; treeline; trees; vegetation cover; Italy
Abstract:
... Soil needs a long time for its development, and traces of the past effects of climate, vegetation cover, and human activity can persist through time. Thus, paleosols are widely studied for paleo-environmental reconstructions, so to understand the effects of climate changes and/or human activities that for millennia transformed the land and interacted with soil formation. The aim of this work was t ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.050

9. Modern pollen assemblages and their relationships to vegetation and climate in the Lhasa Valley, Tibetan Plateau, China

Author:
Yan-Jie Zhang; La Duo; You-Zhi Pang; Vivian A. Felde; Hilary H. Birks; H. John B. Birks
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 210-221
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Amaranthaceae; Artemisia; Cyperaceae; Juniperus; atmospheric precipitation; botanical composition; climatic factors; cluster analysis; correspondence analysis; dry environmental conditions; evapotranspiration; humidity; meadows; meteorological data; pollen; principal component analysis; regression analysis; shrublands; shrubs; summer; temperature; woodlands; China
Abstract:
... Forty-seven surface pollen samples and 141 vegetation quadrats were investigated in the Lhasa Valley in order to assess the relationships between local modern pollen assemblages and vegetation and climate. The regional climatic data for each sample are mean annual precipitation (Pann), mean annual temperature (Tann), summer temperature (Tsummer), actual evapotranspiration (AET), potential evapotra ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.040

10. Optical dating of Holocene sediments from the Yangtze River (Changjiang) Delta, China

Author:
Xiaomei Nian; Weiguo Zhang; Zhanghua Wang; Qianli Sun; Jing Chen; Zhongyuan Chen
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 251-263
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Holocene epoch; luminescence; mass spectrometry; organic carbon; quartz; radiocarbon dating; radionuclides; sea level; sediments; China; Yangtze River
Abstract:
... Establishing a reliable chronology is essential for understanding delta evolution, which is normally performed using radiocarbon (14C) dating and the recently emerging technique of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). The application of the latter one to the Holocene Yangtze River (Changjiang) Delta deposit is still quite limited. In this study, two 60.9-m-long cores were collected from Taizho ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.011

11. Palaeoecological investigations and 230Th/U dating of the Eemian Interglacial peat sequence from Neubrandenburg-Hinterste Mühle (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, NE Germany)

Author:
Andreas Börner; Anna Hrynowiecka; Renata Stachowicz-Rybka; Monika Niska; Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo; Vladislav Kuznetsov; Fedor Maksimov; Aleksey Petrov
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 62-78
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Betula; Characeae; acid soils; aquatic plants; basins; calcium; climatic factors; coniferous forests; deciduous forests; gravel; lakes; landscapes; meadows; mosses and liverworts; oligotrophication; paleoecology; peat; riparian forests; trees; Germany
Abstract:
... The Eemian Interglacial sequence was explored in the gravel pit ‘Neubrandenburg-Hinterste Mühle’ near Neubrandenburg (NE Germany). The sequence is situated in a former kettle hole depression between underlying Late Saalian till (s. str. Warthe) covered by a Late Weichselian till. Today still visible a 3 m long and max. 2 m wide profile is located on the edge of the former Eemian depression. The li ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2017.04.003

12. Paleoclimate interpretation in northern Ordos Basin: Evidence from isotope records of groundwater

Author:
H. Ma; Q. Yang; L. Yin; X. Wang; J. Zhang; C. Li; J. Dong
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 204-209
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Cretaceous period; basins; carbon; data collection; frozen soils; groundwater; groundwater recharge; hydrogen; ice; meteorological data; oxygen; paleoclimatology; stable isotopes; temperature
Abstract:
... The hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes are the indicative evidences of paleoclimate change. δD and δ18O composition of groundwater is commonly used to provide information on the climate record. This study focuses on the isotopic evidences of paleoclimate variations in the Northern Ordos Basin, where the Cretaceous groundwater have different ages since the middle age of Late Pleistocene. The hydro ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.043

13. Palynomorph evidence for tropical climate stability in the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, over the latest marine transgression and highstand (14,500 years BP to today)

Author:
Marie L. Thomas; Sophie Warny; David M. Jarzen; Samuel J. Bentley; André W. Droxler; Brandon B. Harper; Charles A. Nittrouer; Kehui Xu
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 277-291
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
El Nino; carbon; climatic factors; flora; magnetism; oxidants; oxygen; palynology; pollen; radionuclides; sea level; sediment transport; sediments; spores; stable isotopes; transgressive segregation; tropics; Papua New Guinea
Abstract:
... Three sediment cores (MV-41, MV-46, and MD-50) from the Gulf of Papua (GoP), Papua New Guinea, were analyzed to assess changes in climatic, oceanographic, and sedimentological conditions over the last 14.5 kyr. Palynomorphs, which were isolated from sediment core samples, were collected at approximately 0.5-m intervals using a strong acid and oxidant (MD-50)/non-oxidant (MV-41, MV-46) procedure. R ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.035

14. Post-Saalian transformation of dry valleys in eastern Europe: An example from NE Poland

Author:
B. Woronko; J. Rychel; T.M. Karasiewicz; M. Kupryjanowicz; A. Adamczyk; M. Fiłoc; L. Marks; T. Krzywicki; K. Pochocka-Szwarc
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 161-177
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
climate; electrical resistance; epigenetics; glaciation; holocene soils; ice; lakes; organic matter; paleoecology; particle size distribution; peatlands; permafrost; pollen; quartz; sand; solifluction; surveys; tomography; valleys; water flow; Eastern European region; Poland
Abstract:
... The studies were conducted in a dry valley in NE Poland. They were aimed at determining the origin of this structure and tracing the processes that have shaped the dry valley in a time span of about 130 ka. The research included detailed geological mapping, including piercing of a number of boreholes and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) surveys. The obtained material was pollen analysed, OS ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.09.054

15. Provenance of obsidian artifacts from the Wolseongdong Paleolithic site, Korea, and its archaeological implications

Author:
Yongjoon Chang; Jong Chan Kim
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 360-368
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
mass spectrometry; minor elements; provenance; quality control; strontium; Korean Peninsula
Abstract:
... The provenance of obsidian artifacts from the Wolseongdong Paleolithic site in Korea has hitherto been uncertain. A previous study was unable to identify the source despite the availability of major/minor element concentrations, strontium isotopic composition, and K–Ar age. We have revisited the problem, and obtained geochemical data for 100 obsidian artifacts from Wolseongdong using Laser Ablatio ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.034

16. Spatial-temporal variations of natural disasters during the Ming & Qing Dynasties (1368–1912AD) in Chaohu Lake Basin, East China

Author:
Li Wu; Hui Zhou; Shitao Zhang; Linying Li; Mengcui Zhang; Chao Ji
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 242-250
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
basins; climate; disasters; drought; earthquakes; floods; hills; intraseasonal oscillation; mountains; statistics; watersheds; wind; China
Abstract:
... The Ming & Qing Dynasties experienced the Little Ice Age (LIA), a most abnormal climate event in nearly 2000 years’ of Chinese history, in which various natural disasters took place frequently. On the basis of systematically collecting and collating historical documents related to natural disasters, and by adopting mathematical statistics, geological succession, correlation and other methods, anal ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.012

17. The association of palaeoindian sites from southern Brazil and Uruguay with the Umbu Tradition: Comments on Suárez et al. (2017)

Author:
João Carlos Moreno de Sousa; Mercedes Okumura
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 292-296
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
archaeology; Brazil; Uruguay
Abstract:
... The Umbu Tradition is an archaeological cultural unit created in late 1960s to better describe the variation observed in sites presenting lithic bifacial points in southern Brazil. Over the years, many Brazilian archaeologists, when studying archaeological sites presenting bifacial points, have associated these to the Umbu Tradition, regardless of region or chronology. Since the 1990s, some author ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.056

18. The procurement of obsidian at Arslantepe (Eastern Anatolia) during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age: Connections with Anatolia and Caucasus

Author:
D. Mouralis; M. Massussi; G. Palumbi; E. Akköprü; F. Balossi Restelli; D. Brunstein; M. Frangipane; B. Gratuze; F. Mokadem; A.-K. Robin
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 342-359
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
databases; interdisciplinary research; raw materials; rivers; social factors; Caucasus region; Turkey (country)
Abstract:
... Arslantepe is a höyük (= tell) located within the fertile Malatya Plain, near the right bank of the Euphrates River. The site is excavated since more than 55 years by the Italian Sapienza University archaeologists and reveals periods from at least the sixth millennium BCE until the final destruction of the Neo-Hittite town. This long sequence records the changing relations and connections with var ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.041

19. A Late Saalian Glaciation, Eemian Interglacial and Early Weichselian pollen sequence at Szklarka, SW Poland – Reconstruction of vegetation and climate

Author:
Małgorzata Malkiewicz
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 43-53
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Betula; climate; climate change; forests; glaciation; plant communities; pollen; pollen analysis; sediments; Poland
Abstract:
... This paper presents the results of palinological studies of the sediments from the site of Szklarka (Silesian Lowland, SW Poland). The pollen sequence from Szklarka records the longest continuous succession of vegetation covering the Late Saalian, Eemian Interglacial and Early Weichselian in SW Poland. The results of pollen analysis show phases with forest and open vegetation communities in respon ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.09.026

20. New finds of Eemian Tilia tomentosa Moench macroremais in NE Poland, and the reconstructed European range of this species during the last interglacial

Author:
Mirosława Kupryjanowicz; Wojciech Granoszewski; Magdalena Fiłoc
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.467 pp. 107-116
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Tilia tomentosa; fossils; fruits; pollen; sediments; temperature; Poland; Southern European region; Turkey (country)
Abstract:
... Fossil nutlets of Tilia tomentosa Moench were found in the Eemian sediments from the Hieronimowo site, NE Poland. They come from the hazel (E4 R PAZ) and hornbeam (E5 R PAZ) phase of the last interglacial. Currently, this species occurs only in southern Europe and in Asia Minor. Its presence in NE Poland during the Eemian Interglacial shows that its northern range limit was at that time about 1000 ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.039