Natural landscapes preferred for the location of past watermills and their predisposition to preserve cultural landscape enclaves

Szatten, Dawid; Brzezińska, Marta; Maerker, Michael; Podgórski, Zbigniew; Brykała, Dariusz

doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100376

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“…Their study explains the environmental changes and biodiversity in the Baltic Sea region, explores the factors influencing these changes and the evolutionary processes, and highlights the impact of human activities and Earth's climate change on biodiversity. Szatten et al [67] identified 103 watermill sites in the Chełmno Lake area and selected 65 mills for in-depth study. By employing a delimitation of the natural landscape and using the Maximum Entropy Method (MaxEnt), their study revealed how human activities have influenced the distribution and nature of lake sediments by altering the watershed network.…”

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Environmental Studies Based on Lake Sediment Records in China: A Review

Li,

Tang,

Huang

2024

Land

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Lake sediment records are of great importance for understanding the evolution of watershed environments. Various studies have been carried out to determine the depositional ages of lake sediments and to examine their physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. The aim is to construct the historical vegetation, environment, and climate patterns in Chinese lake watersheds. In this review, we obtained relevant studies on lake sediment records by searching the key word ‘age-depth’ from the following databases: Web of Science and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI, the largest Chinese academic database). We analyzed the literature based on its type (published in a Chinese/English journal or as a Master’s/PhD thesis), period of publication, journal (if published in a journal), key authors, study area, dating scale, and main aims. The results suggest that the lakes in the plateau regions are the most popular research topic, typically covering 100–200 years (short-term) and 500–30,000 years (long-term). The literature focuses on a wide range of topics, from past environmental evolution in watersheds to lake ecology, and it provides a solid foundation for a better understanding of the regional climate change and the preservation of lake environments and ecosystems. In the future, the resulting data obtained from environmental reconstructions with lake sediments will need to be integrated with emerging information processing technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence and meta-analysis) to disentangle the complex interplay between the Earth’s surface processes and global climate change; furthermore, strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration will deepen our comprehension of the man-land relationship and promote the sustainable management of lake ecosystems in the context of global climate change.

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Environmental Studies Based on Lake Sediment Records in China: A Review

Li,

Tang,

Huang

2024

Land

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Unobvious geoheritage in sacral buildings: millstones in churches of NE Poland from a geological and geomorphological perspective

Czubla,

Brykała,

Dąbski

et al. 2024

Geogr. Pol.

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The article highlights the importance of medieval churches with embedded millstones as geocultural objects with a great geotouristic and educational potential. In the lowland areas of Northeastern Poland, 79 millstones and their semi-finished products were inventoried. Their sizes ranged from 70 to 100 cm in diameter. The majority of them were made of erratic boulders, mainly granitoids of Fennoscandian origin. Additionally, gneisses, sandstones, pegmatites, and basaltoid were also identified. An attempt was made to determine the degree of weathering of the millstones over several hundred years of exposure to external conditions. Measurements of moisture content and salinity of the walls surrounding 10 millstones embedded in the walls of 8 churches were taken three times (in spring, summer, and winter). Lower wall moisture was observed in the vicinity of the millstones, but only in the case of three walls, the salinity of the mortar binding the bricks and stones was at a low level. A weak but statistically significant negative correlation was found between the age of the churches and the hardness of the millstones measured with a Schmidt hammer.

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Natural landscapes preferred for the location of past watermills and their predisposition to preserve cultural landscape enclaves

Cited by 2 publications

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Environmental Studies Based on Lake Sediment Records in China: A Review

Environmental Studies Based on Lake Sediment Records in China: A Review

Unobvious geoheritage in sacral buildings: millstones in churches of NE Poland from a geological and geomorphological perspective

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