Aminostratigraphy of Middle and Late Pleistocene deposits in The Netherlands and the southern part of the North Sea Basin

Meijer, T.; Cleveringa, P.

doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.004

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“…Evidence for the Elsterian glaciation occurs throughout the northern part of the Netherlands and comprises widespread subglacial tunnel-valley systems, associated glaciolacustrine sediments (Peelo Formation) and occasional bodies of till (Zagwijn, 1989;Laban, 1995;Laban and van der Meer, 2011). The specific timing of the Elsterian glaciation is an increasingly controversial issue with opinions sharply divided between a conventional MIS 12 age (Zagwijn, 1996;Laban and van der Meer, 2011) or a younger MIS 10 age (Vandenberghe, 2000;Meijer and Cleveringa, 2009). Debate is centred upon the application of AAR dates to the Dutch sequence (Meijer and Cleveringa, 2009), and the precise timing and transport history relating to the input of volcanic tuffas from the Eifel volcanic region into the Rhine catchment (Boenigk and Frechen, 2006;Litt et al, 2008).…”

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“…The specific timing of the Elsterian glaciation is an increasingly controversial issue with opinions sharply divided between a conventional MIS 12 age (Zagwijn, 1996;Laban and van der Meer, 2011) or a younger MIS 10 age (Vandenberghe, 2000;Meijer and Cleveringa, 2009). Debate is centred upon the application of AAR dates to the Dutch sequence (Meijer and Cleveringa, 2009), and the precise timing and transport history relating to the input of volcanic tuffas from the Eifel volcanic region into the Rhine catchment (Boenigk and Frechen, 2006;Litt et al, 2008). The latter represents a key chronostratigraphic marker horizon with the Dutch Middle Pleistocene succession.…”

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Quaternary glaciations of northern Europe

Böse

Lüthgens

Lee

et al. 2012

Quaternary Science Reviews

125

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This paper presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Berlin in February 2009, concerned with current research on the glacial history of northern Europe, including the British Isles. The methodologies presently used to resolve this topic are outlined. Particular attention is given to new analytical methods deriving from high resolution remote imaging of glacial terrain both on land and on the sea-bed, key new stratigraphic sections, higher resolution results from conventional geochronological methods like radiocarbon and more recently developed technologies such as luminescence and cosmogenic radionuclide dating. The relationships between the results derived from these two methods are discussed in further detail along with possible explanations for these differences. An outline of a 'most likely' glacial history of the Scandinavian and British and Irish Ice Sheets is presented along with possible links to global climate change as represented by the marine isotope (MIS) record. Tentative evidence for glaciation is identified in MIS 22, 16, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 and correlations of 'phases' within the Last Glaciation are also explored for both the Scandinavian and British and Irish Ice Sheets. The results show that the character and extent of glaciation in different parts of the region are not synchronous and much more geochronological work is required before regional correlations can be established with confidence. Keywords: glaciation, marine isotope stages (MIS), Scandinavian Ice Sheet (SIS), British and Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS), Last Glacial Maximum Introduction and objectivesThe glaciation of northern Europe has been a subject of interest and debate for over 200 years and today, at a time of greater awareness to the consequences of climate change, the subject retains its relevance to science and society. With the development of new methodologies for dating glacial deposits and important new findings for modelling glacier response to climate change this subject requires re-evaluation and re-interpretation. Likewise it has been possible to identify critical issues that should be the focus for future research. Consequently, in February 2009 an exploratory workshop was held at the Freie Universität Berlin to examine the frequency and timing of glaciations in northern Europe (including Britain) during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. The workshop was funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgmeinschaft/ German Research Foundation) and involved 24 participants. This issue of Quaternary Science Reviews includes a number of the contributions presented and discussed at the meeting along with certain invited papers that present new findings on the topic of the special issue. This paper will begin by briefly reviewing the contents of the issue giving particular attention to new and important findings. This will be followed by a section that will evaluate the methodologies currently being applied to understand the glaciations of northern Europe. Some of these methodologies, such as lithostratigraphy and morphostratig...

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Quaternary glaciations of northern Europe

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“…Radiometric techniques included thermoluminescence dating of heated flint artifacts, which yielded an age of 250 ± 20 ka (21), and electron spin resonance dating of shells, which yielded an age of 220 ± 40 ka, all converging to MIS 7 for the Maastricht-Belvédère interglacial (20). However, amino acid racemization dating of Corbicula shells from the interglacial deposits, as well as biostratigraphically important elements of the mollusk fauna itself, suggest an earlier age (i.e., MIS 9) for the Belvédère interglacial and its associated archeology (22).…”

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Use of red ochre by early Neandertals

Roebroeks

Sier

Nielsen

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The use of manganese and iron oxides by late Neandertals is well documented in Europe, especially for the period 60–40 kya. Such finds often have been interpreted as pigments even though their exact function is largely unknown. Here we report significantly older iron oxide finds that constitute the earliest documented use of red ochre by Neandertals. These finds were small concentrates of red material retrieved during excavations at Maastricht-Belvédère, The Netherlands. The excavations exposed a series of well-preserved flint artifact (and occasionally bone) scatters, formed in a river valley setting during a late Middle Pleistocene full interglacial period. Samples of the reddish material were submitted to various forms of analyses to study their physical properties. All analyses identified the red material as hematite. This is a nonlocal material that was imported to the site, possibly over dozens of kilometers. Identification of the Maastricht-Belvédère finds as hematite pushes the use of red ochre by (early) Neandertals back in time significantly, to minimally 200–250 kya (i.e., to the same time range as the early ochre use in the African record).

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“…3, log 2): it was entirely fluvial in character (Table 2), with the exception of the single fragment of the terrestrial gastropod Azeca goodalli. Valvata piscinalis, the most abundant species in the sample, prefers relatively deep, moving water and is described by Meijer and Cleveringa (2009) as a fluvio-lacustrine species. Deep, moving water is also preferred by Pisidium amnicum and Pisidium henslowanum.…”

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Middle to Late Pleistocene palaeoecological reconstructions and palaeotemperature estimates for cold/cool stage deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England

Langford¹,

Boreham²,

Briant³

et al. 2014

Quaternary International

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Fossiliferous beds in a complex sequence of late Middle to Late Pleistocene deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England, provided a rare opportunity for a multidisciplinary study of the palaeoecology of cool/cold stage deposits from different glacial stages. The fossiliferous sediments investigated form part of the River Nene 1st Terrace. Three of the four fossil assemblages investigated pre-date the last interglacial stage (Ipswichian/Eemian/marine oxygen isotope stage (MIS) 5e), whereas the other dates to part of the MIS 3 interstadial complex (Middle Devensian/Weichselian). Pollen, plant macrofossil, molluscan, coleopteran, ostracod, foraminifera and vertebrate data are available to a greater or lesser extent for each cool/cold stage assemblage, and they broadly present the same ecological picture for each one: a continuum from lowenergy permanent to non-permanent aquatic habitats through marshland with associated waterside taxa, together with flood influxes of fluvial, riparian and ruderal taxa. Although each fossil assemblage records cool/cold climatic conditions, to a greater or lesser extent, these conditions are more apparent in the insect and ostracod faunas. In comparision with results published for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) stadial in The Netherlands, palaeotemperature estimates based on ranges of mutual agreement between independent coleopteran and ostracod methods for the three preIpswichian/Eemian assemblages indicate minimum mean July air temperatures that are from +1° to +3°C warmer, but January values that embrace the −8°C estimate for the LGM. There is, however, a disparity between the coleopteran and ostracod palaeotemperature estimates for the Middle Devensian/Weichselian fossil assemblage, which are based on two different sample stratigraphic levels; the lower, coleopteran assemblage is indicative of very cool, continental climates, whereas the stratigraphically slightly higher ostracod assemblage suggests a climatic amelioration. Lack of numerical age-estimates prevents a robust stratigraphical interpretation, but the youngest pre-Ipswichian/Eemian fossil assemblage could date to the marine oxygen isotope stage 7-6 transition, at a time when cooling possibly preceded glacially driven sea-level fall. It is apparent from the rich coleopteran data that some continental cold-indicator taxa also appeared in pre-Ipswichian/Eemian cold stages and therefore assignment of continental cold-indicator taxa to particular Devensian/Weichselian intervals should be undertaken with care.

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Aminostratigraphy of Middle and Late Pleistocene deposits in The Netherlands and the southern part of the North Sea Basin

Cited by 62 publications

References 65 publications

Quaternary glaciations of northern Europe

Quaternary glaciations of northern Europe

Use of red ochre by early Neandertals

Middle to Late Pleistocene palaeoecological reconstructions and palaeotemperature estimates for cold/cool stage deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England

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