Tracing the influence of Mediterranean climate on Southeastern Europe during the past 350,000 years.

ABSTRACT: Loess-palaeosol sequences are valuable archives of past environmental changes. Although regional palaeoclimatic trends and conditions in Southeastern Europe have been inferred from loess sequences, large scale forcing mechanisms responsible for their formation have yet to be determined. Southeastern Europe is a climatically sensitive region, existing under the strong influence of both Mediterranean and continental climates. Establishment of the spatial and temporal evolution and interaction of these climatic areas is essential to understand the mechanisms of loess formation. Here we present high-resolution grain-size, environmental magnetic, spectrophotometric and geochemical data from the Stalać section in the Central Balkans (Serbia) for the past ~350,000 years. The goal of this study is

SUBMITTER: Obreht I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5099887 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature