Open Access

Prospects and limitations of heavy mineral analyses to discriminate preglacial/glacial transitions in Pleistocene sedimentary successions


Cite

Antoine, P., Moncel, M.-H., Locht, J.-L., Limondin-Lozouet, N., Auguste, P., Stoetzel, E., Dabkowski, J., Voinchet, P., Bahain, J.-J. & Falgueres, C., 2015. Dating the earliest human occupation of Western Europe: New evidence from the fluvial terrace system of the Somme basin (Northern France). Quaternary International 370, 77–99.10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.012Search in Google Scholar

Arnold, L.J., Demuro, M., Parés, J.M., Pérez-González, A., Arsuaga, J.L., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M. & Carbonell, E., 2015. Evaluating the suitability of extended-range luminescence dating techniques over early and Middle Pleistocene timescales: Published datasets and case studies from Atapuerca, Spain. Quaternary International 389, 167–190.10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.010Search in Google Scholar

Badura, J. & Przybylski, B., 2004. Evolution of the Late Neogene and Eopleistocene fluvial system in the fore land of the Sudetes Mountains, SW Poland. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 74, 43–61.Search in Google Scholar

Bateman, R.M. & Catt, J.A., 2007. Provenance and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of superficial deposits, with particular reference to post-depositional modification of heavy mineral assemblages. In: Developments in Sedimentology 58, 151–188.10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58005-2Search in Google Scholar

Bijlsma, S., 1981. Fluvial sedimentation from the Fennoscandian area into the North-West European Basin during Late Cenozoic. Geologie en Mijnbouw 60, 337–345.Search in Google Scholar

Boenigk, W. & Frechen, M., 2006. The Pliocene and Quaternary fluvial archives of the Rhine system. Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 550–574.10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.01.018Search in Google Scholar

Bolikhovskaya, N.S., Faustov, S.S. & Markova, A.K., 2016. Pleistocene climatic stratigraphy and environments of the Terek-Kuma Lowland (NW Caspian sea region) inferred from palynological, paleomagnetic and rodent records of the long Otkaznoye sediment sequence. Quaternary International 409, 16–32.10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.067Search in Google Scholar

Bujak, L. 2010. Heavy minerals in preglacial sediments of the southern Mazovian Lowland. Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego 438, 19–32.Search in Google Scholar

Bujak, Ł., Woronko, B., Winter, H., Marcinkowski, B., Werner, T., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., Żarski, M., Woźniak, P.P. & Rosowiecka, O., 2016. A new stratigraphic position of some Early Pleistocene deposits in central Poland. Geological Quarterly 60, 238–251.10.7306/gq.1269Search in Google Scholar

Chiarini, E., Giardini, M., Mattei, M., Papasodaro, F., Porreca, M. & Sadori, L., 2009. Plio-Quaternary geological evolution of the high Salto river valley (Central Italy): The Marano de’ Marsi unit. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 22, 325–343.Search in Google Scholar

Ciuk, E., 1970. Schematy litostratygraficzne trzeciorzędu Niżu Polskiego [Lithostratigraphical schemes of the Tertiary from the Polish Lowland area]. Kwartalnik Geologiczny 14, 754–771.Search in Google Scholar

Cordier, S., Harmand, D., Lauer, T., Voinchet, P., Bahain, J.-J. & Frechen, M., 2012. Geochronological reconstruction of the Pleistocene evolution of the Sarre valley (France and Germany) using OSL and ESR dating techniques. Geomorphology 165–166, 91–106.10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.038Search in Google Scholar

Czerwonka, J.A. & Krzyszkowski, D., 2001. Preglacial (Pliocene – Early Middle Pleistocene) deposits in Southwestern Poland: lithostratigraphy and reconstruction of drainage pattern. In: Krzyszkowski, D. (Ed.): Late Cainozoic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography of the Sudetic Foreland. Wind, Wrocław, 147–195.Search in Google Scholar

Donders, T.H., Kloosterboer-van Hoeve, M.L., Westerhoff, W., Verreussel, R.M.C.H & Lotter, A.F., 2007. Late Neogene continental stages in NW Europe revisited. Earth-Science Reviews 85, 161–186.10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.06.004Search in Google Scholar

Duval, M., Sancho, C., Calle, M., Guilarte, V. & Peña-Monné, J.L., 2015. On the interest of using the multiple center approach in ESR dating of optically bleached quartz grains: Some examples from the Early Pleistocene terraces of the Alcanadre River (Ebro basin, Spain). Quaternary Geochronology 29, 58–69.10.1016/j.quageo.2015.06.006Search in Google Scholar

Dyjor, S., 1987a. Systemy kopalnych dolin Polski Zachodniej i fazy ich rozwoju w młodszym neogenie i eoplejstocenie [Systems of burried valleys in western Poland and phases of their development in the Upper Neogene and Eopleistocene]. [In:] Jahn, A. & Dyjor, S. (Eds): Problemy młodszego neogenu i eoplejstocenu w Polsce [Problems of Late Neogene and Eopleistocene in Poland]. Ossolineum, Wrocław, p. 85–101 (in Polish with English summary).Search in Google Scholar

Dyjor, S., 1987b. Młodotrzeciorzędowy i eoplejstoceński rozwój sieci kopalnych dolin w Polsce na tle ewolucji paleogeograficznej obszaru bruzdy środkowoeuropejskiej [Early Tertiary and Eopleistocene evolution of burried valleys in Poland against the background of the Middle European palaeogeography. [In:] Jahn, A. & Dyjor, S. (Eds): Problemy młodszego neogenu i eoplejstocenu w Polsce [Problems of Late Neogene and Eopleistocene in Poland]. Ossolineum, Wrocław, p. 85–101 (in Polish with English summary).Search in Google Scholar

Dyjor, S., 1991. Wpływ ewolucji paleogeograficznej na rozwój zlodowaceń w Polsce Zachodniej [Influence of the palaeogeographical evolution on the development of glaciations in western Poland]. [In:] Kostrzewski, A. (Ed.): Geneza, litologia i stratygrafia utworów czwartorzędowych [Genesis, lithology and stratigraphy of Quaternary deposits]. Geografia, Poznań, 50, p. 419–433 (in Polish with English summary).Search in Google Scholar

Gao, H.S., Li, Z.M., Liu, X.F., Pan, B.T., Wu, Y.J. & Liu, F.L., 2017. Fluvial terraces and their implications for Weihe River valley evolution in the Sanyangchuan Basin. Science China Earth Sciences 60, 413–427.10.1007/s11430-016-5037-8Search in Google Scholar

Gibbard, P.L. & Lewin, J., 2016. Partitioning the Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews 151, 127–139.10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.033Search in Google Scholar

Griffioen, J., Klaver, G. & Westerhoff, W.E., 2016. The mineralogy of suspended matter, fresh and Cenozoic sediments in the fluvio-deltaic Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt-Ems area, the Netherlands: An overview and review. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 95, 23–107.10.1017/njg.2015.32Search in Google Scholar

Goździk, J. & Zieliński, T., 2017. Evolution of Early Pleistocene fluvial systems in central Poland prior to the first ice sheet advance – a case study from the Bełchatów lignite mine. Geologos 23, 89–107.10.1515/logos-2017-0011Search in Google Scholar

Goździk, J., Kenig, K. & Skórzak, A., 2010. Zmiany kształtu ziaren kwarcowych oraz składu mineralnego piaszczystych osadów miocenu, pliocenu i niższego czwartorzędu w rowie Kleszczowa [Changes in the shape of quartz grains and mineral composition of Miocene, Pliocene and Lower Quaternary sand deposits in the Kleszczów Graben]. Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego 438, 33–50.Search in Google Scholar

Kemna, H.A., 2008. Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene fluvial history of the Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany: Examples of the tectonic forcing of river courses. Quaternary International 189, 106–114.10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.038Search in Google Scholar

Knox, R.W.O.B., Bosch, J.H.A., Rassmussen, E.S., Heilmann-Clausen, C., Hiss, M., De Jugt, I.R., Kasiński, J., King, C., Köthe, A., Słodkowska, B., Standke, C. & Vandenberghe, M., 2010. Cenozoic. In: Doornenbal & Stevenson, A. (Eds): Petroleum Geological Atlas of the South Permian Basin Area. EAGE Publication, Houten, 211–224.Search in Google Scholar

Kosmowska-Ceranowicz, B., 1979. Zmienność litologiczna i pochodzenie okruchowych osadów trzeciorzędowych wybranych rejonów północnej i środkowej Polski [Lithology and origin of Tertiary clastic deposits in central and northern Poland: results of translucent heavy-mineral analysed]. Prace Muzeum Ziemi 30, 3–73.Search in Google Scholar

Krzyszkowski, D., 1990. Neogene fluvial sedimentation in the Kleszczów Graben, Central Poland. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 63, 204–217.Search in Google Scholar

Krzyszkowski, D. & Winter, H., 1996. Stratigraphic position and sedimentary features of the Tertiary Uppermost Fluvial Member in the Kleszczów Graben, Central Poland. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 66, 17–33.Search in Google Scholar

Lee, J.R., 2009. Patterns of preglacial sedimentation and glaciotectonic deformation within early Middle Pleistocene sediments at Sidestrand, north Norfolk, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 120, 34–48.10.1016/j.pgeola.2008.11.002Search in Google Scholar

Lewandowski, J. & Kaziuk, H., 1982. Ewolucja kopalnej sieci rzecznej region śląsko-krakowskiego [Ancient Early Pleistocene valleys in the Silesian-Cracow region]. Geological Quarterly 26, 177–190 (in Polish with English summary).Search in Google Scholar

Lewiński, J., 1928. Utwory preglacjalne i glacjalne Piotrkowa i okolic [Preglacial and glacial deposits of Piotrków and surroundings]. Sprawozdania z posiedzeń Towarzystwa Naukowego Warszawskiego, Wydz. III 21, 49–66.Search in Google Scholar

Mahnac, A.A. (Ed.), 2002. Geology and natural resources. In: National Atlas of Belarus. Minsk, pp. 35–60.Search in Google Scholar

Marcinkowski, B. & Mycielska-Dowgiałło, E., 2013. Heavy-mineral analysis in Polish investigations of Quaternary deposits: a review. Geologos 19, 5–24.10.2478/logos-2013-0002Search in Google Scholar

Marks, L., Dzierżek, J., Janiszewski, R., Kaczorowski, J., Lindner, L., Majecka, A., Makos, M., Szymanek, M., Tołoczko-Pasek, A. & Woronko, B., 2016. Quaternary stratigraphy and paleogeography of Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 66, 403–427.10.1515/agp-2016-0018Search in Google Scholar

McCann, T. (Ed.), 2008. The Geology of Central Europe. Vol. 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The Geological Society, London. 1538 pp.10.1144/CEV2PSearch in Google Scholar

Mojski, J.E., 2005. Ziemie polskie w czwartorzędzie [Polish area in Quaternary]. Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa, 404 pp.Search in Google Scholar

Piwocki, M. & Ziębińska-Tworzydło, M., 1997. Neogene of the Polish Lowlands – lithostratigraphy and pollen-spore zones. Kwartalnik Geologiczny 41, 21–40.Search in Google Scholar

Piwocki, M., Badura, J. & Przybylski, B., 2004. Neogen [Neogene]. In: Peryt, T.M. & Piwocki, M. (Eds): Geology of Poland. Stratigraphy. Cenozoic. Paleogene, Neogene. Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa, 71–133.Search in Google Scholar

Pirkle, F.L., Pirkle, W.A., Pirkle, E.C., Rich, F.J., Spangler, D.P. & Pirkle, D.L., 2013. Depositional environment of the heavy-mineral deposits of Bailey, North Carolina, U.S.A. Southeastern Geology 49, 145–178.Search in Google Scholar

Racinowski, R., 2010. Główne przezroczyste minerały ciężkie w osadach czwartorzędowych Polski [Main transparent heavy minerals in Quaternary deposits]. Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego 438, 99–106.Search in Google Scholar

Roman, M., 2010. Preglacjalne osady rzeczne ze stanowiska Baruchowo (Kotlina Płocka) [Preglacial flvial deposits in the Baruchowo site (Płock Basin)]. Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego 438, 107–122.Search in Google Scholar

Roquero, E., Silva, P.G., Goy, J.L., Zazo, C. & Massana, J., 2015. Soil evolution indices in fluvial terrace chronosequences from central Spain (Tagus and Duero fluvial basins). Quaternary International 376, 101–113.10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.036Search in Google Scholar

Sarnacka, Z., 1978. Plejstocen rejonu doliny Wisły między Magnuszewem i Górą Kalwarią [Pleistocene of the Wisła River valley between Magnuszew and Góra Kalwaria]. Biuletyn Instytutu Geologicznego 300, 5–96.Search in Google Scholar

Stuchlik, L., 1987. Przegląd badań paleobotanicznych osadów plioceńskich i wczesnoplejstoceńskich Polski środkowej i południowej [Palaeobotanical studies of Pliocene and Early Pleistocene deposits in middle and southern Poland – review]. In: Jahn, A. & Dyjor, S. (Eds): Problemy młodszego neogenu i eoplejstocemu w Polsce [Problems of Late Neogene and Eopleistocene in Poland]. Ossolineum, Wrocław, 53–63.Search in Google Scholar

Szujó, G.L., Sebe, K., Sipos, G. & Pozsgai, E., 2017. Pleistocene fluvial gravel in the Villány Hills (SW Hungary). Foldtani Kozlony 147, 85–98.10.23928/foldt.kozl.2017.147.1.85Search in Google Scholar

Westerhoff, W.E., Kemna, H.A. & Boenigk, W., 2008. The confluence area of Rhine, Meuse, and Belgian rivers: Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene fluvial history of the northern Lower Rhine Embayment. Netherland Journal of Geosciences 87, 107–125.10.1017/S0016774600024070Search in Google Scholar

Westgate, J.A., Pearce, G.W., Preece, S.J., Schweger, C.E., Morlan, R.E., Pearce, N.J.G. & Perkins, T.W., 2013. Tephrochronology, magnetostratigraphy and mammalian faunas of Middle and Early Pleistocene sediments at two sites on the Old Crow River, northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Research 79, 75–85.10.1016/j.yqres.2012.09.003Search in Google Scholar

Widera, M., 2007. Litostratygrafia i paleotektonika kenozoiku podplejstoceńskiego Wielkopolski [Lithostratigraphy and palaeotectonics of the sub-Pleistocene Cenozoic of Wielkopolska]. Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań, 223 pp.Search in Google Scholar

Widera, M., Kowalska, E. & Fortuna, M., 2017. A Miocene anastomosing river system in the area of Konin lignite mine, central Poland. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 87, 157–168.10.14241/asgp.2017.012Search in Google Scholar

eISSN:
2080-6574
Language:
English
Publication timeframe:
3 times per year
Journal Subjects:
Geosciences, Geophysics, Geology and Mineralogy, other