Landscape evolution and volcanic activity in the Eifel reconstruction from maar sediments of the last 70.000 years ...

• Main Authors: Sirocko, Frank, Knapp, Hannes, Dreher, Frank, Förster, Michael W, Albert, Johannes, Brunck, Heiko, Veres, Daniel, Dietrich, Stephan, Zech, Michael, Hambach, Ulrich, Röhner, Marieke, Rudert, Saskia, Schwiebus, Klaus, Adams, Christel, Sigl, Petra
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.868908; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.868908

Laminated sediment records from several maar lakes and dry maar lakes of the Eifel (Germany) reveal the history of climate, weather, environment, vegetation, and land use in central Europe during the last 60,000 years. The time series of the last 30,000 years is based on a continuous varve counted chronology, the MIS3 section is tuned to the Greenland ice - both with independent age control from 14C dates. Total carbon, pollen and plant macrofossils are used to synthesize a vegetation-stack, which is used together with the stacks from seasonal varve formation, flood layers, eolian dust content and volcanic tephra layers to define Landscape Evolution Zones (LEZ). LEZ 1 encompasses the landscape dynamics of the last 6000 years with widespread human influence. The natural oak and hazel forests of the early Holocene back to 10,500 b2k define LEZ 2. LEZ 3, the late glacial between 10,500 and 14,700 b2k, shows the development of a boreal forest with abundant grass and shallow water biomass in the lakes. The ... : Supplement to: Sirocko, Frank; Knapp, Hannes; Dreher, Frank; Förster, Michael W; Albert, Johannes; Brunck, Heiko; Veres, Daniel; Dietrich, Stephan; Zech, Michael; Hambach, Ulrich; Röhner, Marieke; Rudert, Saskia; Schwiebus, Klaus; Adams, Christel; Sigl, Petra (2016): The ELSA-Vegetation-Stack: Reconstruction of Landscape Evolution Zones (LEZ) from laminated Eifel maar sediments of the last 60,000years. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 108-135 ...