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Data review article
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20 Oct 2023
Data review article |
| 20 Oct 2023
| 20 Oct 2023
Last Glacial loess in Europe: luminescence database and chronology of deposition
PACEA, UMR 5199 CNRS – Université Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 33615 Pessac, France
Sebastian Kreutzer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23, Wales, United Kingdom
Archéosciences-Bordeaux, UMR 6034, CNRS – Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Maison de l'Archéologie, 33607 Pessac, France
Pascal Bertran
PACEA, UMR 5199 CNRS – Université Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 33615 Pessac, France
Inrap, 140 avenue du Maréchal Leclerc, 33130 Bègles, France
Philippe Lanos
Archéosciences-Bordeaux, UMR 6034, CNRS – Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Maison de l'Archéologie, 33607 Pessac, France
Géosciences-Rennes, UMR 6118 CNRS – Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
Philippe Dufresne
Archéosciences-Bordeaux, UMR 6034, CNRS – Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Maison de l'Archéologie, 33607 Pessac, France
Géosciences-Rennes, UMR 6118 CNRS – Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
Christoph Schmidt
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics – University of Lausanne, Géopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Late middle Pleistocene malacological evidence of loess deposition in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine W. Alexandrowicz et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109406
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- Morphostratigraphy and Dating of Last Glacial Loess–Palaeosol Sequences in Northwestern Europe: New Results from the Track of the Seine-Nord Europe Canal Project (Northern France) S. Vercelot et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat8040075
- Late middle Pleistocene malacological evidence of loess deposition in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine W. Alexandrowicz et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109406
- Aligning loess with marine and lacustrine sedimentary record around 22.2 cal. kyr B.P. to explore the rapidity of atmospheric circulation change caused by the advance of the Eurasian ice-sheet cover J. Nawrocki et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2026.101034
- Environmental gamma dose rate measurements using cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors S. Kreutzer et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-229-2025
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- A record of Late Pleistocene environmental conditions at the transition from central to southern Europe from the Baix loess paleosol sequence (Rhône Rift Valley, SE France) N. Pfaffner et al. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.10053
- Exploring the limits of the provenience postulate: chemical and mineralogical characterization of Bronze Age ceramics from the Great Hungarian Plain M. Golitko et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02076-4
- A Hierarchical Bayesian Examination of the Chronological Relationship between the Noaillian and Rayssian Phases of the French Middle Gravettian W. Banks et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7020026
- Age, composition and spatial distribution of sandy loess in north‐eastern Germany (Fläming, Brandenburg) F. Kirsten et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5885
- Subsoils, but not toeslopes, store millennia-old PyC in a gently sloping catchment under temperate climate after centuries of cultivation J. Lebrun Thauront et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-155-2026
- Genetic diversity and phylogeography of the circumboreal peatland violets (Viola epipsila‐V. palustris complex, Violaceae) as inferred from non‐coding nuclear and chloroplast DNA regions J. Żabicka et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13299
- Post-glacial development of limestone scree in NW England; the example of White Scar, southern English Lake District P. Carling et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2026.101165
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Short summary
During the last glacial period, cold conditions associated with changes in atmospheric circulation resulted in the deposition of widespread loess. It seems that the phases of loess accumulation were not strictly synchronous. To test this hypothesis, the chronology of loess deposition in different regions of Europe was studied by recalculating 1423 luminescence ages in a database. Our study discusses the link between the main loess sedimentation phases and the maximal advance of glaciers.
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