TY - JOUR AU - Marković, SB AU - Stevens, T AU - Kukla, GJ AU - Hambach, U AU - Fitzsimmons, KE AU - Gibbard, P AU - Buggle, B AU - Zech, M AU - Guo, Z AU - Hao, Q AU - Wu, H AU - O'Hara, Dhand K AU - Smalley, IJ AU - Újvári, Gábor AU - Sümegi, Pál AU - Timar-Gabor, A AU - Veres, D AU - Sirocko, F AU - Vasiljević, DA AU - Jary, Z AU - Svensson, A AU - Jović, V AU - Lehmkuhl, F AU - Kovács, János AU - Svirčev, Z TI - Danube loess stratigraphy - Towards a pan-European loess stratigraphic model JF - EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS J2 - EARTH-SCI REV VL - 148 PY - 2015 SP - 228 EP - 258 PG - 31 SN - 0012-8252 DO - 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.06.005 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2920426 ID - 2920426 N1 - Laboratory for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, Novi Sad, 21000, Serbia Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Rt. 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, United States BayCEER and Chair of Geomorphology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, D-95440, Germany Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany Cambridge Quaternary, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, England, CB2 3EN, United Kingdom Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstr. 5, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland Soil Physics Department, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, D-95440, Germany Key laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 10029, China Giotto Loess Research Group, Geography Department, Leicester University, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Csatkai Endre u. 6-8., Sopron, H-9400, Hungary Department of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Szeged, Egyetem u. 2-6, Szeged, H-6722, Hungary Faculty of Environmental Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Fantanele, 30, Cluj Napoca, 400294, Romania Romanian Academy, Institute of Speleology, Clinicilor 5, Cluj-Napoca, 400006, Romania Institute of GeoSciences, University of Mainz, J.-J. Becher-Weg 21, Mainz, D-55128, Germany Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, Novi Sad, 21000, Serbia Institute of Geography and Regional Development, University of Wrocław, Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, Wrocław, 50-137, Poland Ice and Climate Research, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihajlova 35, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia Department of Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Wüllnertsr. 5b, Aachen, D-52056, Germany Department of Geology and Meteorology And Environmental Analytical and oGeoanalytical Research Group, Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pecs, Hungary Cited By :193 Export Date: 25 May 2022 Correspondence Address: Marković, S.B.; Laboratory for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, Serbia AB - The Danube River drainage basin is the second largest river catchment in Europe and contains a significant and extensive region of thick loess deposits that preserve a record of a wide variety of recent and past environments. Indeed, the Danube River and tributaries may themselves be responsible for the transportation of large volumes of silt that ultimately drive loess formation in the middle and lower reaches of this large catchment. However, this vast loess province lacks a unified stratigraphic scheme. European loess research started in the late 17th century in the Danube Basin with the work of Count Luigi Ferdinand Marsigli. Since that time numerous investigations provided the basis for the pioneering stratigraphic framework proposed initially by Kukla (1970, 1977) in his correlations of loess with deep-sea sediments. Loess-palaeosol sequences in the middle and lower reaches of the Danube River basin were a key part of this framework and contain some of the longest and most complete continental climate records in Europe, covering more than the last million years. However, the very size of the Danube loess belt and the large number of countries it covers presents a major limiting factor in developing a unified approach that enables continental scale analysis of the deposits. Local loess-palaeosol stratigraphic schemes have been defined separately in different countries and the difficulties in correlating such schemes, which often change significantly with advances in age-dating, have limited the number of basin-wide studies. A unified basin-wide stratigraphic model would greatly alleviate these difficulties and facilitate research into the wider significance of these loess records. Therefore we review the existing stratigraphic schemes and define a new Danube Basin wide loess stratigraphy based around a synthetic type section of the Mošorin and Stari Slankamen sites in Serbia. We present a detailed comparison with the sedimentological and palaeoclimatic records preserved in sediments of the Chinese Loess Plateau, with the oxygen isotope records from deep-sea sediments, and with classic European Pleistocene stratigraphic subdivisions. The hierarchy of Danubian stratigraphic units is determined by climatically controlled environmental shifts, in a similar way to the Chinese loess stratigraphic scheme. A new unified Danube loess stratigraphic model has a number of advantages, including preventing confusion resulting from the use of multiple national schemes, a more transparent basis, and the potential to set Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental changes recorded in the Danube catchment area into a global context. The use of a very simple labelling system based on the well-established Chinese loess scheme facilitates interpretation of palaeoenvironmental information reported from the Danube Basin loess sites in a wider more accessible context that can be readily correlated world-wide. This stratigraphic approach also provides, for the first time, an appropriate framework for the development of an integrated, pan-European and potentially pan-Eurasian loess stratigraphic scheme. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -