(Table 1) Sedimentation rate and mean accumulation rate of sediment and dust at Nussloch, Germany ...

• Main Authors: Rousseau, Denis-Didier, Antoine, Pierre, Sun, Youbin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: Eurasia; Last Glacial Maximum; Loess; Mass accumulation rates; Millennial scale variability; sedimentation rate; Layer description; Layer thickness; Age, minimum/young; Age, maximum/old; Duration; Sedimentation rate per year; Accumulation rate, sediment, mean per year; Accumulation rate, dust, per year; Sedimentation rate; Sedimentation rate, dust; Comment; Core; Tipping Points in the Earth System TiPES; Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.931638; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931638

Our study focuses on European loess sequences, particularly the eolian intervals in between the observed pedogenic units. The classical concept of soil formation from parent material is reformulated to estimate of the duration and the associated sedimentation rate (SR) and mass accumulation rate (MAR) of these paleodust intervals. We show that the Greenland Stadial (GS) duration in European loess deposits includes the thickness of the overlying pedogenic unit, which in fact developed downward into the upper part of the eolian unit. The lower stratigraphical limit of the eolian unit overlying the pedogenic unit corresponds to the restart of the dust sedimentation of the younger GS. We illustrate this interpretation first by computing both SRs and MARs first for the Nussloch key sequence, the most complete European series. The correlation between Nussloch and other European loess sequences, located along a 1,800 km longitudinal transect, allows computation of SR and MAR for several identified GS events. ...