The aim of the natural investigations carried out in two archaeological sites in the SE Poland was to determine their TL age (15 samples) and characterize the vegetation cover with the use of pollen analysis (10 samples) of loess and loess-like deposits sampled in the sites and their close environs. Micromorphological features of loess were examined in one of the sites. The research was carried...

The extensive Interior Alaska loess deposits record glacial advance and retreat over the past 3 Myrs. Refining our understanding of still-debated origins this will help us refine climate patterns since late Cenozoic. We present here first detrital-zircon ages from Gold Hill loess, a well-studied deposit in Fairbanks, Alaska, as well new local fluvial sediments. describe statistical approach to ...

The loess stratigraphic boundary at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition defined by the magnetic susceptibility (MS) has previously been assumed to be synchronous with the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 2/1 boundary, and approximately time-synchronous at different sections across the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). However, although this assumption has been used as a basis for proxy-age model of Chines...

Loess deposits are common in the mid-latitudes and excellent records of past climate, landscape change dust. However, loess seldom reported from Fennoscandia. Here we investigate two former glaciofluvial areas central Sweden, Brattforsheden Bonäsheden, where post-glacial sand dune activity have been documented previously. Based on detailed mapping, grain size, scanning electron microscopy optic...

loess deposit is one of the most important quaternary deposits of northeastern parts of iran which have high erosion rate. this study was performed with field- rainfall- simulator which has a plot area of 1 m2 in gorganrood drainage basin to determine the effective factors on sediment yield. landuse, slope and erosion feature maps were overlaid in gis to obtain land unit map. then on work units...