The ELSA-Vegetation-Stack: Reconstruction of Landscape Evolution Zones (LEZ) from laminated Eifel maar sediments of the last 60,000 years

Late Pleistocene Eifel eruptions: insights from clinopyroxene and glass geochemistry of tephra layers from Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive sediment cores

“…). Our results complement previous correlations, which were made by using tephra petrography and tephra age within drill‐cores (Förster and Sirocko, ; Sirocko et al , ): based on glass and clinopyroxene composition, we were able to correlate nine tephra layers to corresponding eruption centers, namely LSV, Wartgesberg, Dreiser‐Weiher, Meerfelder Maar, Schalkenmehrener Maar, Pulvermaar, Mosenberg, Dümpelmaar and Jungferweiher (Table ). The ET is correlated to the EEVF and probably corresponds to a volcanic eruption within the area that is proposed to had been destroyed by the Laacher See eruption (Jouannic et al , ).…”

“…While Wartgesberg is a large scoria cone, and is thus suitable for producing widespread tephra layers and shows a chemical variation of clinopyroxene as observed for the ET (Supporting Information, Fig. S3), various independent dating methods set its age to about 27 000–30 000 a bp (Sirocko et al , ; Eichhorn et al , ), too old to be the source for the ET. However, given its eruption date in relation to the ET, the Wartgesberg tephra might resemble the Rambach tephra which closely pre‐dates the ET (Frechen, ).…”

“…Within the Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive (ELSA) sediment cores, several tephra layers have previously been correlated to radiometrically dated volcanic centers of both Eifel Volcanic Fields (Lenaz et al , ; Sirocko et al , ; Förster and Sirocko, ). The correlations presented in previous studies were based on the geochemical composition as well as tephra ages derived from the stratigraphic position within the 14 C‐dated and Greenland ice core stadial–interstadial sequence tuned sediment cores for the Laacher See Tephra (12 900 a bp ), Dreiser‐Weiher Tephra (41 000 a bp ), Meerfelder Maar Tephra (45 000 a bp ), Dümpelmaar Tephra (106 000 a bp ), and Glees Tephra (151 000 a bp ) (Sirocko et al , ; Förster and Sirocko, ), while the Eltville Tephra has not been identified in these studies.…”

“…In this study we correlate the largest eruption centers of both Eifel Volcanic Fields to tephra layers from eight maar sediment drill‐cores (Fig. ; Table ) from the ELSA (http://www.klimaundsedimente.geowissenschaften.uni-mainz.de/; Sirocko et al , ).…”

The impact of Last Glacial climate variability in west-European loess revealed by radiocarbon dating of fossil earthworm granules

“…4). In Europe, both Les Echets Lake magnetic susceptibility (45) and Eifel maar varve thickness (46) were likely influenced by the Aeolian transport, and in China, the Qinghai Lake dust flux above 25 μm was influenced by the Westerlies (47). The acquisition of more high-resolution and well-dated terrestrial and marine records is thus required to thoroughly evaluate the significance of both IGs and minor LGM oscillations.…”