Late Vistulian and Holocene fossil soils developed from aeolian and alluvial sediments of the Warsaw Basin

Late Vistulian (= Weichselian) and Holocene aeolian phenomena in central and northern Europe

Auteurs :
KONECKA-BETLEY, K.
KOZARSKI, S.

Description :
Stratotype profiles of fossil soils of the Late Vistulian and Holocene developed from alluvial and aeolian sediments were recognized. Different analyses and radiocarbon dating of organic substance enabled to distinguish diagnostic pedostratigraphic horizons, what allowed to determine the age and produce a typology of soils. On the basis of soil dating, indirectly a precise determination of alluvial and aeolian processes in the Warsaw Basin was carried out. The bottom of organic substance of the oldest among fossil soils in the Warsaw Basin was dated for 13,340 years B.P. The mineral sediments of this horizon are still older.


Type de document :
Article de monographie

Source :
Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. Supplementband, issn : 0044-2798, 1991, n°. 90, p. 99-105, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 11 réf.

Date :
1991

Editeur :
Pays édition : Allemagne, Berlin ; Stuttgart, Borntraeger