The Recent Volga Delta as an Analogue for the Productive Series in the South Caspian Basin

Kroonenberg, S.B.; Simmons, M. Y.; Overeem, I.; Hinds, D.; Aliyeva, E.M.; Свиточ, А.А.; Rusakov, G.V.

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“…The absolute age of this section's sediments identified by our colleagues in an international project from six 14 C AMS dates varied from 7287 ± 44 to 3316 ± 34 BP. [Kroonenberg and Hoogendoorn, 2008]. The Holocene geological record in the sequences of the Volga delta [Bolikhovskaya and Kasimov, 2008] is incomplete, which has been confirmed by rigorous palynological and algological investigation of four sections of the delta carried out by K. Richards [Richards and Bolikhovskaya, 2010].…”

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The Evolution of Climate and Landscapes of the Lower Volga Region During the Holocene

Bolikhovskaya¹,

Касимов²

2010

Geogr. environ. sustain.

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The results of the palynological analysis and 14 C dating of the most complete sequences of the Holocene sediments were used for a detailed reconstruction of multi-cyclic alternations of climate phases and zonal and intrazonal plant formations that were taking place the Lower Volga region during the last ten thousand years. Twenty-six phases in evolution of the natural environment during the Holocene were distinguished. Landscape-climatic characteristics and chronological boundaries were identified for these phases. Reconstructed paleoclimatic stages were correlated to the Holocene transgressions and regressions in the Caspian Sea region. The model developed for periodization of climatic events may serve as a climato-stratigraphical framework for future paleogeographical studies of the Holocene in the Northern Caspian region.KEY WORDS: the Lower Volga region, Holocene, pollen assemblages, 14 C dating, vegetation and climate reconstructions, paleo-environments, transgressions and regressions of the Caspian Sea

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