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A Lateglacial palaeosol cover in the Altdarss area, southern Baltic Sea coast (northeast Germany): investigations on pedology, geochronology and botany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

K. Kaiser ,
A. Barthelmes ,
S. Czakó Pap ,
A. Hilgers ,
W. Janke ,
P. Kühn  and
M. Theuerkauf
K. Kaiser*
Affiliation:
University of Marburg, Dept. of Geography, Deutschhausstrasse 10, D-35032 Marburg, Germany.
A. Barthelmes
Affiliation:
University of Greifswald, Dept. of Botany, Grimmer Strasse 88, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
S. Czakó Pap
Affiliation:
University of Greifswald, Dept. of Geography, Jahnstrasse 16, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
A. Hilgers
Affiliation:
University of Köln, Dept. of Geography, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln, Germany.
W. Janke
Affiliation:
University of Greifswald, Dept. of Geography, Jahnstrasse 16, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
P. Kühn
Affiliation:
University of Tübingen, Dept. of Physical Geography, Rümelinstrasse 19-21, D-72070 Tübingen, Germany.
M. Theuerkauf
Affiliation:
University of Greifswald, Dept. of Botany, Grimmer Strasse 88, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
*
*Corresponding author. Email:knut.kaiser@gmx.net
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A new site with Lateglacial palaeosols covered by 0.8 - 2.4 m thick aeolian sands is presented. The buried soils were subjected to multidisciplinary analyses (pedology, micromorphology, geochronology, dendrology, palynology, macrofossils). The buried soil cover comprises a catena from relatively dry (’Nano’-Podzol, Arenosol) via moist (Histic Gleysol, Gleysol) to wet conditions (Histosol). Dry soils are similar to the so-called Usselo soil, as described from sites in NW Europe and central Poland. The buried soil surface covers ca. 3.4 km2. Pollen analyses date this surface into the late Allerød. Due to a possible contamination by younger carbon, radiocarbon dates are too young. OSL dates indicate that the covering by aeolian sands most probably occurred during the Younger Dryas. Botanical analyses enables the reconstruction of a vegetation pattern typical for the late Allerød. Large wooden remains of pine and birch were recorded.

Keywords

buried palaeosolLate QuaternarypalaeoenvironmentUsselo soil
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Research Article
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Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 197 - 220
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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2006

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