A biotic record of paleoenvironmental changes during the last interglacial-glacial cycle in a sub-Carpathian river valley; a case study of the Radymno loess section (SE Poland)

Kulesza, Piotr; Łanczont, Maria; Komar, Maryna

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2019.12.007

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“…Here the climate could thus have been less harsh than closer to the ice front, but the environment was certainly dry. Paleobotanic analyses register a warming at ~17 ka in the Sandomierz Basin 82,83 . The development of pedogenic processes was also noted during that time interval in other parts of Poland, as indicated by Moska et al 69 in their synthetic study.…”

Section: Sedimentary Succession As Paleoenvironmental Change − Discus...mentioning

confidence: 61%

“…Nevertheless, reports from neighbouring areas seem to suggest that beginning from the Last Glacial Maximum, the mosaic vegetation cover comprised xero-mesophilous steppe with patches of tundra vegetation À with birch admixture in rare refugia. 83,107,108 However, the density of vegetation could not cover more than 45% of the surface, because only below this value can the sand deposits be accessed. 109,110 The source rocks were fluvioglacial and glacial sand deposits of Elsterian age (MIS 11), located to the west of G ora Motyczna, which are widely distributed within the Tarn ow Plateau (Figure 1b).…”

Section: Activity Of Aeolian Processes During Cs Accumulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The vegetation cover is difficult to characterize in this case due to the lack of paleobotanic studies in the direct vicinity of this site. Nevertheless, reports from neighbouring areas seem to suggest that beginning from the Last Glacial Maximum, the mosaic vegetation cover comprised xero‐mesophilous steppe with patches of tundra vegetation − with birch admixture in rare refugia 83,107,108 . However, the density of vegetation could not cover more than 45% of the surface, because only below this value can the sand deposits be accessed 109,110 …”

Section: Sedimentary Succession As Paleoenvironmental Change − Discus...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate change records in coversand deposits from the eastern margin of the Tarnów Plateau (southeast Poland)

Sokołowski

Woronko

Chmielowska

2023

Permafrost & Periglacial

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Coversands (CSs) are one of the most distinctive sediments within the European Sand Belt. Their extraordinary thickness, exceeding 6 m, was recorded at the G ora Motyczna site located at the edge of the Wisłoka River valley in the Tarn ow Plateau (southeast Poland). The sedimentary record of the studied CSs sets their arrangement into one of two sedimentary cycles. Each consists of sandy (A1 and A2) and silty (B1 and B2) lithofacies, forming an A1 ) B1 ) A2 ) B2 sequence that is considered to be a record of climate change during the Weichselian Late Pleniglacial. Sandy lithofacies accumulation occurred under dry and snow-free climatic conditions, whereas silty lithofacies accumulation marks an increase in humidity as a result of the presence of snow-cover. Sediment optical dating indicated that the studied CSs were deposited in a period from $18-17 to $16-15 ka. The period of accumulation was therefore short, which is confirmed by the analysis of quartz-grain shape and surface type. Due to this brevity of aeolian processes during this period, the only change expressed is in grain-surface microrelief; thus, the quartz grains had already inherited their shape and degree of rounding from their source environments and earlier processes. The source sediments could have been artefacts of Miocene and Quaternary deflationary sediments associated with blowouts.

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Section: Sedimentary Succession As Paleoenvironmental Change − Discus...mentioning

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Section: Activity Of Aeolian Processes During Cs Accumulationmentioning

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Section: Sedimentary Succession As Paleoenvironmental Change − Discus...mentioning

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Climate change records in coversand deposits from the eastern margin of the Tarnów Plateau (southeast Poland)

Sokołowski

Woronko

Chmielowska

2023

Permafrost & Periglacial

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“…Pollen records show a rather unstable environment with repeated changes from tundra-like grassland to forest-tundra and taiga vegetation (e.g. Duprat-Oualid et al, 2017;Engel et al 2010;Hrynowiecka et al, 2018;Kulesza et al, 2020;Maier et al, 2021;Sirocko et al, 2016;Van Andel and Tzedakis 1996;Gerlach et al, 1993;Szczepanek et al, 2007;Maier et al, 2021). The above-mentioned phenomena of cryoturbation and solifluction occurring during the colder phases of MIS 3 and at the transition to MIS 2 were recorded in the periglacial transformation of the soil complex, especially in the younger part.…”

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State‐of‐the‐art overview of the Loess Palaeolithic of Poland

Valde‐Nowak

Łanczont

2021

J Quaternary Science

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In Poland, loess mainly occurs in the southern part of the country, in the Polish Uplands, and on the northern foreland of the Sudetes and the Carpathians. Most of these sediments come from the time of the last glaciation-the Vistulian (Weichselian) glaciation. Thin covers of loess from the penultimate glaciation have been preserved in Upper Silesia. Only a few sites from the Middle Palaeolithic remain in the loess. In the eastern part of Poland loess creates profiles several metres high. Discoveries in this zone represent the cultural sequence from the transition from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic. We know more traces of various cultures from the Upper Palaeolithic exist. The study attempts to synchronise profiles from selected archaeological open-air sites, outlines of the history of research on loess sites, and attempts to explain terminological and conceptual issues. The issue of loess in the cave site profiles will not be discussed in the article.

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“…While other Quaternary paleoecological microfossils such as foraminifera, ostracods, radiolaria, diatoms and pollen are often not preserved in loess (Muhs, 2013), there are exceptions in reworked loess sediments in lacustrine and alluvial settings such as anomalous subaqueous loess facies (Kulesza et al ., 2020). The high carbonate content of loess deposits, however, is ideal for the preservation of terrestrial mollusks.…”

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The past in dust: current trends and future directions in Pleistocene geoarcheology of European loess

Chu

Nett

2021

J Quaternary Science

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Loess is a main archive of Pleistocene landscapes and environments and therefore has an important connection to the preservation and interpretation of Paleolithic sites. In Europe, anthropogenic sites have been found in loess because of past local occupation. At one extreme, sites are well preserved with minimal disturbance often accompanied by embedded proxies to estimate ecological parameters. On the other hand, loess deposits have undergone post‐depositional alterations such as weathering, pedogenesis or bioturbation due to changing environmental conditions or other disturbances that obscure anthropogenic sites. We outline the current state of research and connections between Paleolithic archeology and loess research while introducing a series of subsequent regional case studies as part of a special issue. We also make recommendations for future work to incorporate a wider variety of methods to create more robust inferences on hominin and environmental evolution and their connections.

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A biotic record of paleoenvironmental changes during the last interglacial-glacial cycle in a sub-Carpathian river valley; a case study of the Radymno loess section (SE Poland)

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Climate change records in coversand deposits from the eastern margin of the Tarnów Plateau (southeast Poland)

Climate change records in coversand deposits from the eastern margin of the Tarnów Plateau (southeast Poland)

State‐of‐the‐art overview of the Loess Palaeolithic of Poland

The past in dust: current trends and future directions in Pleistocene geoarcheology of European loess

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