Onset of major Pleistocene glaciations in the Alps. Geology 31
ABSTRACT During maximum Pleistocene glacial expansions, the Alpine ice cap invaded the Central Europe uplands and Italian Southalpine foothills. Periglacial basins, such as the Po River Basin, are natural collectors of sediments that record the past biological and climatic changes that involve the w...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1083.204 2023-05-15T16:38:09+02:00 Onset of major Pleistocene glaciations in the Alps. Geology 31 Giovanni Muttoni Sergio Rogledi The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2003 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1083.204 http://users.unimi.it/paleomag/geo2/Muttoni%2B2003b.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1083.204 http://users.unimi.it/paleomag/geo2/Muttoni%2B2003b.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://users.unimi.it/paleomag/geo2/Muttoni%2B2003b.pdf text 2003 ftciteseerx 2020-05-03T00:28:08Z ABSTRACT During maximum Pleistocene glacial expansions, the Alpine ice cap invaded the Central Europe uplands and Italian Southalpine foothills. Periglacial basins, such as the Po River Basin, are natural collectors of sediments that record the past biological and climatic changes that involve the waxing and waning of major ice caps. In a 200-m-long core from the central Po Plain, stratigraphic evidence for one such major glacial pulse of the nearby Alpine ice cap is recorded by a sequence boundary, termed the R surface, associated with a drastic reorganization of vegetational, fluvial, and Alpine drainage patterns. The R surface, seismically traceable across the Po Plain subsurface, was constrained magnetostratigraphically to the first prominent Pleistocene glacio-eustatic lowstand of marine isotope stage (MIS) 22 at 0.87 Ma. MIS 22 corresponds to the end of the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution, a marked reorganization of Northern Hemisphere glaciation pattern that took place in the late early Pleistocene. We suggest that the R surface formed at Mid-Pleistocene Revolution-MIS 22 time, during the onset of the first major Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps. Text Ice cap Unknown |
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ABSTRACT During maximum Pleistocene glacial expansions, the Alpine ice cap invaded the Central Europe uplands and Italian Southalpine foothills. Periglacial basins, such as the Po River Basin, are natural collectors of sediments that record the past biological and climatic changes that involve the waxing and waning of major ice caps. In a 200-m-long core from the central Po Plain, stratigraphic evidence for one such major glacial pulse of the nearby Alpine ice cap is recorded by a sequence boundary, termed the R surface, associated with a drastic reorganization of vegetational, fluvial, and Alpine drainage patterns. The R surface, seismically traceable across the Po Plain subsurface, was constrained magnetostratigraphically to the first prominent Pleistocene glacio-eustatic lowstand of marine isotope stage (MIS) 22 at 0.87 Ma. MIS 22 corresponds to the end of the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution, a marked reorganization of Northern Hemisphere glaciation pattern that took place in the late early Pleistocene. We suggest that the R surface formed at Mid-Pleistocene Revolution-MIS 22 time, during the onset of the first major Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps. |
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