The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic
International audience This study presents an overview of Middle Pleistocene loess–palaeosol sequences (LPS) in northern France and discusses the palaeoclimatic significance of the pedosedimentary record in the context of western European LPS and of global climatic cycles for the last 750 ka. In thi...
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International audience This study presents an overview of Middle Pleistocene loess–palaeosol sequences (LPS) in northern France and discusses the palaeoclimatic significance of the pedosedimentary record in the context of western European LPS and of global climatic cycles for the last 750 ka. In this area, the oldest loess deposits (early Middle Pleistocene) are preserved in sedimentary traps (leeward scarps of fluvial terraces and dissolution sinkholes). They result from local deflation processes reworking Pleistocene sandy fluvial deposits or relicts of Tertiary sands. A large extension of typical calcareous loess over the landscape, the Loess Revolution, is then observed during MIS 6, with heavy mineral assemblages testifying to long‐distance transport from the polar desert area of the dried eastern Channel. A correlation scheme is proposed between the global records of northern France in continental environments and both global palaeoclimatic records and other main western European LPS. After 30 years of research, northern France LPS stand as a fundamental archive of the impact of interglacial–glacial climatic cycles as well as millennial events. Finally, these works provide a robust chronoclimatic framework for the study of the western European Late Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic and for the relative dating of the various fluvial terraces that they fossilise. |
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The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic |
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The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic |
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The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic |
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The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic |
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The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic |
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last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern france: environmental background and dating of the western european palaeolithic |
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ftunivparis8:oai:HAL:hal-03164133v1 2024-06-23T07:56:19+00:00 The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic Antoine, Pierre Coutard, Sylvie Bahain, Jean-Jacques Locht, Jean‑luc Hérisson, David Goval, Emilie Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Anthropologie des techniques, des espaces et des territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène (AnTET) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Ministère de la Culture (MC) 2021-03-09 https://hal.science/hal-03164133 https://hal.science/hal-03164133/document https://hal.science/hal-03164133/file/JQS%20PA%20Loess%20last%20750%20ka%202021.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3281 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/jqs.3281 hal-03164133 https://hal.science/hal-03164133 https://hal.science/hal-03164133/document https://hal.science/hal-03164133/file/JQS%20PA%20Loess%20last%20750%20ka%202021.pdf doi:10.1002/jqs.3281 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0267-8179 EISSN: 1099-1417 Journal of Quaternary Science https://hal.science/hal-03164133 Journal of Quaternary Science, 2021, Special Issue: Pleistocene geoarchaeology and palaeoenvironments in European loess November 2021, 36 (8), pp.1293-1310. ⟨10.1002/jqs.3281⟩ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3281 loess Palaeolithic palaeosols Pleistocene western Europe [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftunivparis8 https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3281 2024-06-10T23:54:11Z International audience This study presents an overview of Middle Pleistocene loess–palaeosol sequences (LPS) in northern France and discusses the palaeoclimatic significance of the pedosedimentary record in the context of western European LPS and of global climatic cycles for the last 750 ka. In this area, the oldest loess deposits (early Middle Pleistocene) are preserved in sedimentary traps (leeward scarps of fluvial terraces and dissolution sinkholes). They result from local deflation processes reworking Pleistocene sandy fluvial deposits or relicts of Tertiary sands. A large extension of typical calcareous loess over the landscape, the Loess Revolution, is then observed during MIS 6, with heavy mineral assemblages testifying to long‐distance transport from the polar desert area of the dried eastern Channel. A correlation scheme is proposed between the global records of northern France in continental environments and both global palaeoclimatic records and other main western European LPS. After 30 years of research, northern France LPS stand as a fundamental archive of the impact of interglacial–glacial climatic cycles as well as millennial events. Finally, these works provide a robust chronoclimatic framework for the study of the western European Late Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic and for the relative dating of the various fluvial terraces that they fossilise. Article in Journal/Newspaper polar desert Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis: HAL Journal of Quaternary Science 36 8 1293 1310 |