Terrasses fluviatiles du Pléistocène moyen en France septentrionale : signification dynamique et climatique

Sommé, Jean; Fagnart, Jean-Pierre; Léger, Michel; Munaut, André-Valentin; Puisségur, Jean‐Jacques; Tuffreau, Alain

doi:10.3406/quate.1984.1480

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“…2) Historically the Somme Valley has played an important role in the development of frameworks for both archaeological and Quaternary sequences in northwest Europe (Prestwich, 1859;Commont, 1910;Koslowski, 1931, 1932;Bourdier, 1969;Sommé and Tuffreau, 1978;Sommé et al, 1984;Haeserts and Dupuis, 1986;Tuffreau, 1987;Antoine, 1990Antoine, , 1994Antoine and Tuffreau, 1993;Tuffreau and Antoine, 1995;Antoine et al, 2000). The Somme terraces have yielded a plethora of different types of evidence, enabling stratigraphical frameworks to be erected based on morphostratigraphy (Antoine, 1990(Antoine, , 1994Antoine et al, 2000), chronostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy (Biquand, 1974;Laurent et al, 1994), U/Th (U series) dating (Laurent, 1993), electron spin resonance (ESR) on quartz grains (Laurent, 1993;Laurent et al, 1994), thermoluminescence (TL; Balescu, 1988;Engelmann and Frechen, 1998), AAR (Bates, 1993) and mammalian biostratigraphy (Auguste, 1995).…”

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River terrace sequences: templates for Quaternary geochronology and marine–terrestrial correlation

Bridgland

Maddy

Bates

2004

J Quaternary Science

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Fluvial sequences, particularly terrace staircases, represent archives of Quaternary palaeoclimatic fluctuation and can serve as stratigraphical frameworks for geochronology and for correlation with other depositional environments, in particular, the global marine oxygen isotope record. Fluvial lithostratigraphical frameworks also provide contexts for records, from fossils and artefacts, of faunal evolution and human occupation; conversely, both records can be means of relative dating of riverine sequences.Three fluvial sequences are examined as case studies. First is the Severn-Avon system in the English Midlands, which has biostratgraphical evidence and an amino acid geochronology, together with marker inputs from three different glaciations. The Somme sequence of northern France, famous for its Palaeolithic artefact assemblages, again has biostratigraphy and an amino acid geochronology and has also been dated with reference to overlying loess/palaeosols sequences. The fluvial terraces of the River Arun, the final case study, lack dating evidence but are interspersed within the Sussex raised beach staircase. Although various lines of evidence suggest that the rivers discussed have formed terraces in response to climatic fluctuation, an intriguing difference is that interglacial sediments occur at the bases of terrace formations in the Severn-Avon, whereas in the Somme they occur at the tops of sequences, beneath loessic overburden.

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River terrace sequences: templates for Quaternary geochronology and marine–terrestrial correlation

Bridgland

Maddy

Bates

2004

J Quaternary Science

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“…de Mortillet, 1872;Commont, 1910;Breuil andKoslowski, 1931, 1932;Bourdier, 1969;Sommé and Tuffreau, 1978;Tuffreau et al, 1982;Sommé et al, 1984;Haeserts and Dupuis, 1986;Antoine, 1990Antoine, , 1994Antoine and Tuffreau, 1993;Tuffreau and Antoine, 1995;Antoine et al, 2000). It is the location of two Palaeolithic type localities: Abbeville and St Acheul.…”

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The Palaeolithic occupation of Europe as revealed by evidence from the rivers: data from IGCP 449

Bridgland

Antoine

Limondin-Lozouët

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IGCP 449 (2000–2004), seeking to correlate fluvial records globally, has compiled a dataset of archaeological records from Pleistocene fluvial sequences. Many terrace sequences can now be reliably dated and correlated with marine oxygen isotope stages (MIS), allowing potentially useful patterns in artefact distribution to be recognised. This review, based on evidence from northwest European and German sequences (Thames, Somme, Ilm, Neckar and Wipper), makes wider comparisons with rivers further east, particularly the Vltava, and with southern Europe, especially Iberia. The northwest and southern areas have early assemblages dominated by handaxes, in contrast with flake‐core industries in Germany and further east. Fluvial sequences can provide frameworks for correlation, based on markers within the Palaeolithic record. In northwest Europe the first appearance of artefacts in terrace staircases, the earliest such marker, dates from the mid–late Cromerian Complex. Flake‐core industries may have significantly preceded handaxe industries in southern Europe. An important technological innovation—Levallois technique—occurs at the Lower‐Middle Palaeolithic boundary, correlated with MIS 9–8. Humans deserted northern Europe during MIS 6, apparently returning to central Germany and northern France (Somme valley) by MIS 5e but not reaching southern England until the appearance of Mousterian culture during MIS 4–3. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The well‐documented terrace system of the River Somme (Fig. 3) (Commont, 1910; Bourdier, 1969; Sommé et al. , 1984; Antoine, 1994) and the dating of these fluvial records (Fig.…”

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Modelling the long‐term fluvial erosion of the River Somme during the last million years

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Terrasses fluviatiles du Pléistocène moyen en France septentrionale : signification dynamique et climatique

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River terrace sequences: templates for Quaternary geochronology and marine–terrestrial correlation

River terrace sequences: templates for Quaternary geochronology and marine–terrestrial correlation

The Palaeolithic occupation of Europe as revealed by evidence from the rivers: data from IGCP 449

Modelling the long‐term fluvial erosion of the River Somme during the last million years

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