Particle-Size Distribution of Late Pleistocene Loess-Paleosol Deposits in Attock Basin, Pakistan: Its Paleoclimatic Implications.

Late Pleistocene climate history of the Baranja loess plateau – evidence from the Zmajevac loess - paleosol section ( northeastern Croatia )

The Zmajevac loess-palaeosol succession (LPS) of the northeastern Baranja loess plateau is exposed along the southern slope of Bansko Brdo, on the western bank of the Danube River. The investigated 17.5-m-thick section shows 4 palaeosol, 1 loess-like and 6 loess horizons. Their integrative palaeoenvironmental analysis combines quantified data from the mollusc record, magnetic susceptibility, gr...

Great Basin Vegetation in the Late Pleistocene

Paleoecological sources indicate that the location and extent of Sierra Nevada rangelands have varied significantly during the last 20,000 years. Modern vegetative associations are recent, with montane wet meadows appearing during the last 3,000 years. A late Pleistocene sagebrush grassland existed where montane and subalpine forests occur today. In the central Sierra a pattern of deglaciation ...

Reconstruction of the Late-Quaternary climate change using magnetic susceptibility of Saadabad-Gorgan loess deposits

Introduction   One of the processes of the Quaternary era is the glacial and interglacial periods. In the glacial period, loesses deposited and in the interglacial period, Paleosoils were formed. The northern part of Iran is geographically the same as countries such as China, a large part of which has been covered with loess sediments during the Pleistocene glacial period. Loess sediments in ...

Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene lake-level fluctuations in the Lahontan Basin, Nevada: Implications for the distribution of archaeological sites

Kenneth D. Adams,* Ted Goebel, Kelly Graf, Geoffrey M. Smith, Anna J. Camp, Richard W. Briggs, and David Rhode Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89521 Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89...

Glacioisostatic influences on Virginia's late Pleistocene coastal plain deposits