Lateglacial/early Holocene fluvial reactions of the Jeetzel river (Elbe valley, northern Germany) to abrupt climatic and environmental changes

River terraces as a response to climatic forcing: Formation processes, sedimentary characteristics and sites for human occupation

“…Cryoturbations, thermal contraction cracks, ice-wedge casts, and soft sediments transported in a frozen state typify the cold-based character of the coarse-grained fluvial deposits that are sometimes intercalated with slope deposits (e.g. Bryant, 1983;Van Huissteden, 1990;Mol, 1997;Kasse et al, 2003;Gao et al, 2007;. Briant et al (2005) distinguish three different facies that apply to a family of cold-based river deposits (see below) of wandering to braided rivers.…”

“…Due to the intermittent character of river flooding, the deposition may frequently be interrupted. This may lead to (several degrees of) soil formation within these floodplain deposits (fluvisol (Turner et al, 2013); Fig. 1d) and the formation of mudcrusts (Huijzer and Mücher, 1993).…”

“…Bridgland, 1994Bridgland, , 2006, but may also occur more rarely at other places e.g. preservation of Eemian fluvial organic deposits below the Weichselian Dinkel river deposits in a glacial basin in the eastern Netherlands (Van Huissteden et al, 1986). In general, scenario 2 seems to be typical for situations where the erosional activity of the river at the beginning of a cold period is relatively low in comparison with the erosive power at the beginning of the previous warm period or in comparison with preponderant depositional activity of the river during the cold period.…”

The usefulness of subfossil Cladocera remains in Younger Dryas climatic reconstructions in central Poland

“…This has had a strong influence on local ecosystems and the aquatic invertebrate fauna (Szeroczyńska 1985;Goslar et al 1998;Isarin and Bohncke 1999;Isarin and Rensen 1999;Milecka et al 2011;Feurdean et al 2014;Mirosław-Grabowska and Zawisza 2013;Gandouin et al 2016;Stivrins et al 2016). The river valleys of central Europe underwent significant geological and hydrological transformation (Starkel 1990(Starkel , 2002Macklin et al 2006;Starkel et al 2007;Notebaert and Verstraeten 2010;Kaiser et al 2012;Turner et al 2013). In response to temperature fluctuations, this caused biotic changes and alterations in river environments (Pawłowski et al 2015b, c).…”

Climatic signature of two mid–late Holocene fluvial incisions formed under sea-level highstand conditions (Pisa coastal plain, NW Tuscany, Italy)

“…However, in Quaternary successions the complex interplay of regional (sea-level, climate), local (geological and tectonic setting, physiography) and human-induced forcing factors may strongly influence river activity on a sub-Milankovitch scale, inducing highfrequency changes in sedimentation patterns (Starkel, 1983(Starkel, , 2000Maddy et al, 2001;Benito et al, 2003;Lewin et al, 2005;Jones et al, 2010;Macklin et al, 2012;Turner et al, 2013).…”