Late Quaternary and present-day fluvial processes in Central Europe

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Late Quaternary and present-day fluvial processes in Central Europe. Papers representing an overview of objectives and main results of the program on "Fluvial geomorphodynamics of the Late Quaternary" founded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in and sponsored for 5 years.

Fluvial processes in Central Europe Fluvial. Late Quaternary fluvial dynamics of the Jarama River in central Spain Article (PDF Available) in Quaternary International February with Reads How we measure 'reads'.

Introduction. The study of past sea-level changes in the Mediterranean Sea has been a focus of coastal scientists for almost two centuries. While interest in vertical land and sea movements is recorded at least as early as the Roman Period (e.g., Strabo, 1st century AD), the first modern sea-level studies may be attributed to Lyell () and Négris, a, Négris, b, Négris, Cited by: We will focus on four regions: (1) northern Central Europe and Fennoscandia, (2) the central part of the East European Plain, (3) the west Siberian Plain and (4) the Aral – Caspian – Black Sea.

The quaternary period began million years ago and extends into the present. Climate change and the developments it spurs carry the narrative of the Quaternary, the most recent million.

Voidomatis basin, Epirus, northwest Greece, have identified four Quaternary terraced alluvial tills that range from middle Pleistocene to historic in age.

Major periods of alluviation during the late Quatemary were associated with valley glaciation (ca. 26, yr B.P.) and subsequent. A systematic variation in the fluvial pattern with the Late Quaternary climatic changes can be observed.

There is an overall teleconnection between the phases of aggradation and incision in the Indian semi-arid rivers. Fig. 7 attempts to summarise the dominant fluvial modes in these different geomorphic settings.

The apparent variations in Cited by: Quaternary (/ k w ə ˈ t ɜːr n ə r i, ˈ k w ɒ t. ər ˌ n ɛr. i / kwə-TUR-nə-ree, KWOT-ər-nerr-ee) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

It follows the Neogene Period and spans from ± million years ago to the present. The Quaternary Period is divided into. The Quaternary is the most recent geological period of time in Earth’s history, spanning the last two million years and extending up to the present day.

The Quaternary period is subdivided into the Pleistocene (“Ice Age”) and the Holocene (present warm interval) epochs, with the Pleistocene spanning most of the Quaternary and the Holocene. Quaternary Geology is mapped without regard for any organic soil layer that may overly the deposit.

The Connecticut Quaternary Geology information was initially compiled atscale (1 inch = 2, feet) then recompiled for a statewide ,scale map, Quaternary Geology Map of Connecticut and Long Island Sound Size: KB.

These episodes are well documented in central Europe (Korzarski, ; Starkel, ) and the north-central United States (Brakenridge,; Knox,). Late Quaternary fluvial sedimentation in the Voidomatis Basin, Epirus, Greece, Quaternary Resea Page 97 Share Cite.

Suggested Citation:"Glacial to Modern. Late Quaternary catastrophic flooding in the Altai Mountains of south-central Siberia: a synoptic overview and an introduction to flood deposit sedimentology.

In Flood and Megaflood Deposits: Recent and Ancient Examples, eds. Martini, I. P., Baker, V. and Garzon, G. Acknowledgements. We thank all the contributors to the Czech Quaternary Pollen Database, which made this synthesis possible, Jiří Sádlo for fruitful ideas for this study, Milan Chytrý, Anna Potůčková and Pavla Žáčková for providing photos, Milan Chytrý for valuable comments on an earlier version of the manuscript and Tony Dixon for language by: 5.

A great deal of research has been carried out on the long-term evolution of drainage networks and for understanding the coupling and feedback mechanisms between climate, tectonics, fluvial system dynamics, and surface processes in general; e.g., [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10].It has been shown that fluvial systems tend to produce extensive terrace staircases in response to eccentricity Author: Kurt Martin Stange, Ivar Midtkandal, Johan Petter Nystuen, Andrew Murray, Reza Sohbati, Warren Thomp.

Late Quaternary river terrace development in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, southwest Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews 23():DOI /rev Ashley GM and Hamilton TD, Fluvial response to Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations, central Kobuk valley, northwestern : Krzysztof Wójcicki.

The NW-SE trending Udine-Buttrio Thrust is a partly blind fault that affects the Friulian plain southeast of Udine in NE Italy. It is part of a wider fault system that accommodates the northward motion of the Adriatic plate.

Although seismic reflection data and morphological evidence show that the fault was active during the Quaternary, comparably little is known about its tectonic Author: Andrea Viscolani, Christoph Grützner, Manuel Diercks, Klaus Reicherter, Kamil Ustaszewski.

Case study of the river Kyronjoki, in: Fluvial processes in the temperate zone during the last 15 years eds. l, y and79 – Google Scholar Mörner N.A., Wallin B. () A 10 year temperate record from Gotland, by: 3. The Quaternary deposits are described in eight major groupings: glacial, periglacial, aeolian, fluviatile, lacustrine, estuarine, marine, and karst.

These groupings are based on the main range of environments that existed at different places and different times in England during the Quaternary, some of which continue during the present Size: 1MB.

By contrast, fluvial fans (also known as distributive fluvial systems; Hartley et al. ; Weissmann et al. ) develop over much larger surfaces, attaining radii of several tens of kilometres and up to a few hundred kilometres (with a notable present day maximum in the Pilcomayo River fan of central South America, which reaches c.

km in. - A preliminary assessment of the Late Quaternary fluvial evolution of the Lower Tagus valley near Muge (Portugal) - Tim van der Schriek and David G. Passmore - Fluvial history in the Czech Republic - Jaroslav TyrÆček & Pavel Havlí ček - Discussion Coffee break.

Gary Nichols began his research career as a student of Peter Friend working on fluvial deposits in Spain, and has continued to work in clastic sedimentology in Europe, the Arctic and Antarctic, SE Asia and the Middle East.

He teaches sedimentology and stratigraphy at Royal Holloway, University of London. Edward Williams conducted research at University College, Cork on .These palaeovalleys are tributaries of a major axial fluvial system (Channel River/Fleuve Manche) that channelled discharge from the Thames and Rhine–Meuse rivers (Gibbard et al., ; Lericolais, ) along with meltwater from Northwest European Ice Masses (Toucanne et al., b, ) during late Quaternary sea-level lowstands (Fig.

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