Fluviatile palaeoenvironments in archaeological context: Geographical position, methodological approach and global change – Hydrological risk issues

Arnaud‐Fassetta, Gilles; Carcaud, Nathalie; Castanet, Cyril; Salvador, Pierre‐Gil

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.03.009

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“…the Loire channel, certainly rose during phase 5, then fell during phase 6. This differs from the pattern proposed by Arnaud-Fassetta et al (2010) for the Touraine area. It also differs greatly from the trends observed in more northern areas where the Boreal, the Atlantic and sometimes a part of the Subboreal are marked by the accumulation of peaty sediment ( [Rose et al, 1980], [Haesaerts, 1984] and [Vandenberghe et al, 1984]), often with precipitated carbonates in the Parisian Basin ( [Antoine, 1997], [Pastre et al, 1997], [Pastre et al, 2002a], [Orth et al, 2004] and [Lespez et al, 2005]), showing low water energy and morphological stability.…”

Section: Fluvial-system Reactivity To the Forcing Factors And Specificontrasting

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Spatio-temporal evolution of the Choisille River (southern Parisian Basin, France) during the Weichselian and the Holocene as a record of climate trend and human activity in north-western Europe

Morin

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Hinschberger

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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drigues, et al.. Spatio-temporal evolution of the Choisille River (southern Parisian Basin, France) during the Weichselian and the Holocene as a record of climate trend and human activity in north-western Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2011, 30 (3-4) AbstractThe morpho-sedimentary evolution of the Choisille floodplain (lowland river, catchment: 288 km 2 ), a tributary of the River Loire in the south-western Parisian Basin, was studied through 61 core drillings along eight transects and a geophysical survey located in four stretches of the river: stretches A and B correspond to two sub-catchments, and stretches C and D are in the main valley. Sixty 14 C and four OSL datings were obtained, and sediments were analysed on seven reference cores. Eight phases of evolution differing markedly from the evolution of more northern areas in the Parisian Basin and north-western Europe were identified from spatio-temporal distribution of nine lithological facies. The deepest incision phase (1) occurred during the first part of the Weichselian, followed by the deposition of a gravelly-sandy unit (phase 2) during the Middle Pleniglacial, which was deeply incised (phase 3), probably during the Bölling. From the Allerød up to the last third of the Boreal (phase 4), sedimentation was continuously dominated by peaty deposits, with no evidence of either increased hydraulic energy during the Younger Dryas, or of incision during the LateGlacialHolocene transition. This trend seems to reflect the specificity of the south-western Parisian Basin climate from the Late Weichselian up to the end of the Boreal, due to the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, compared to more northern areas where the climate was more continental. The downstream incision trend during the last third of the Boreal up to the Subatlantic (phases 5 and 6) indicates a sharp increase in precipitation and vegetation cover; the lack of peaty sediments, widespread in north-western Europe, and also of precipitated carbonates frequent in the Parisian Basin, seems to be due to local physiographic characteristics. The main part of the sediment filling, which is principally silty and retrograde, began during the Subatlantic (phase 7 and 8) as a result of deforestation of the plateaux for crop farming. High humaninduced sediment yield and storage concealed the possible impacts of climate change on fluvial dynamics: lithological facies change from phase 7 to 8 can only indicate the autogenic morphological evolution of the floodplain in accretion. The non-univocal upstreamdownstream variation in the start of phase 7 shows that sediment yield varied in space and time in the catchment, particularly in relation to the agricultural potential of the different areas; this observation could be used to testify human-induced sedimentation in other catchments.

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Section: Fluvial-system Reactivity To the Forcing Factors And Specificontrasting

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Spatio-temporal evolution of the Choisille River (southern Parisian Basin, France) during the Weichselian and the Holocene as a record of climate trend and human activity in north-western Europe

Morin

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Hinschberger

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…In the NW Mediterranean, the Holocene fluvial hydrology has been reconstructed using major hydrological events (extreme floods and lake levels) recorded in lake and fluvial sediments (Arnaud et al, 2012;Benito et al, 2015;Magny et al, 2013;Wirth et al, 2013). Overall, the early Holocene climate was generally dry except for short pulses of higher fluvial activity reported in the Durance and southern Alps rivers (Arnaud-Fassetta et al, 2010). A marked cooling trend is observed with a major change around 7500 a cal BP (Fletcher and Sánchez Goñi, 2008) corresponding to humid conditions in the Iberian peninsula (Benito et al, 2015).…”

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“…The increase in K / Ti between 9000 and 7000 a cal BP may reflect the gradual decrease in the contribution of weathered material from the river catchment areas, which can thus be interpreted as a signal of weaker pedogenetic processes Figure 5. Ca / Ti ratio (a) and percentage of fine-grained (< 8 µm) sediment (c) compared to (b) periods of intense fluvial activity based on hydromorphological and paleohydrological changes in the Rhône Delta (Arnaud-Fassetta et al, 2010). (d) Holocene flood frequency (%) in southern and northern Alps estimated on the basis on lake flood records by Wirth et al (2013).…”

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Holocene hydrological changes in the Rhône River (NW Mediterranean) as recorded in the marine mud belt

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Abstract. Expanded marine Holocene archives are relatively scarce in the Mediterranean Sea because most of the sediments were trapped in catchment areas during this period. Mud belts are the most suitable targets to access expanded Holocene records. These sedimentary bodies represent excellent archives for the study of sea-land interactions and notably the impact of the hydrological activity on sediment accumulation. We retrieved a 7.2 m long sediment core from the Rhône mud belt in the Gulf of Lions in an area where the average accumulation rate is ca. 0.70 m 1000 yr −1 . This core thus provides a continuous and high-resolution record of the last 10 ka cal BP. A multiproxy dataset (XRF core scan, 14 C dates, grain size and organic-matter analysis) combined with seismic stratigraphic analysis was used to document decadal to centennial changes in the Rhône hydrological activity. Our results show that (1) the early Holocene was characterized by high sediment delivery likely indicative of local intense (but short-duration) rainfall events, (2) important sediment delivery around 7 ka cal BP presumably related to increased river flux, (3) a progressive increase in continental/marine input during the mid-Holocene despite increased distance from river outlets due to sea-level rise possibly related to higher atmospheric humidity caused by the southward migration of the storm tracks in the North Atlantic, (4) multidecadal to centennial humid events took place in the late Holocene. Some of these events correspond to the cold periods identified in the North Atlantic (Little Ice Age, LIA; Dark Ages Cold Period) and also coincide with time intervals of major floods in the northern Alps. Other humid events are also observed during relatively warm periods (Roman Humid Period and Medieval Climate Anomaly).

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“…For more ancient time periods, the data related to the historical landscape morphology are unavailable; the difference between historical and modern morphology can be significant and in most cases it is not possible to use a modern DTM without considering the changes of the terrain. For this purpose, it is possible to use geomorphological, stratigraphic, geoarchaeological, and geobotanical data, which provide us with information about the changes in the landscape during long time periods (Arnaud-Fassetta et al, 2010;Lieskovský, 2011;Periman, 2005).…”

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“…The accessibility to the water sources, especially to the surface streams, is one of the most important factors in prediction of ancient settlements locations (Bátora and Tóth, 2014;Ford et al, 2009;Van Leusen et al, 2005;Lieskovský, 2011); the location of the streams themselves is important for archaeohydrological modelling of floods (Arnaud-Fassetta et al, 2010;Gillings, 1995), irrigation (Harrower, 2009;Harrower, 2010), or land-use potential (Bolten et al, 2006). Since current maps and datasets represent water sources in their present form (the vast majority of the streams in Europe were regulated and modified in 20th century), their usage in spatial analysis in archaeology is limited.…”

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Fuzzy Similarity and Fuzzy Inclusion Measures in Polyline Matching: A Case Study of Potential Streams Identification for Archaeological Modelling in GIS

Ďuračiová

Rášová

Lieskovský

2017

Reports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics

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Fluviatile palaeoenvironments in archaeological context: Geographical position, methodological approach and global change – Hydrological risk issues

Cited by 67 publications

References 57 publications

Spatio-temporal evolution of the Choisille River (southern Parisian Basin, France) during the Weichselian and the Holocene as a record of climate trend and human activity in north-western Europe

Spatio-temporal evolution of the Choisille River (southern Parisian Basin, France) during the Weichselian and the Holocene as a record of climate trend and human activity in north-western Europe

Holocene hydrological changes in the Rhône River (NW Mediterranean) as recorded in the marine mud belt

Fuzzy Similarity and Fuzzy Inclusion Measures in Polyline Matching: A Case Study of Potential Streams Identification for Archaeological Modelling in GIS

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