C. M. Chávez-Lara, N. B. Palacios-García, K. García-Macedo, D. Ibarra-Morales, M. Caballero
{"title":"Late Pleistocene–Holocene environmental fluctuations of southern Chihuahua Desert, Mexico","authors":"C. M. Chávez-Lara, N. B. Palacios-García, K. García-Macedo, D. Ibarra-Morales, M. Caballero","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3706","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Paleoenvironmental reconstructions from the Mexican Chihuahua Desert based on biological proxies are scarce, creating a gap in our understanding of the ecological responses to climate change in this water-scarce region. Here, we present a paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on geochemical data and biological proxies such as ostracods and ephippia from cladocerans from the Santa Clara basin, at the southern Chihuahua Desert, during the last 18.7 cal ka. Overall, cold and humid conditions between 18.7 and 15 cal ka BP prevailed in the Santa Clara region without ostracod preservation. During the warmer Bølling-Allerød, <i>L. axalapasco</i> presented higher productivity; however, this species did not occur during the colder Younger Dryas. The early Holocene was marked by a general trend towards warmer and dryer conditions, and a sedimentary hiatus was detected from 10.7 to 6.4 cal ka BP. Subsequently, when the North American Monsoon reached its maximum extension, ostracods exhibit their maximum total abundance during 6–4.8 cal ka BP, indicating warmer and shallower lake conditions. The presence of only females of <i>L. bradburyi</i> between 4–2 cal ka BP possibly suggests lower lake water temperatures associated with enhanced winter precipitation under El Niño type conditions. Finally, during the last 2 cal ka ephippia, <i>L. axalapasco</i> females and geochemical data suggest the driest period of the record as the ITCZ continued moving southwards. This work reveals the marked sensitivity of southern Chihuahua Desert ecosystems to the climatic shifts that occurred since the Last Glacial Maximum, and this perhaps indicates their vulnerability to future global warming reducing monsoonal precipitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 4","pages":"634-644"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.3706","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143945057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Przemysław Mroczek, Oleksiy Krokhmal', Maryna Komar, Maria Łanczont
{"title":"Reassessing stratigraphic and palaeontological interpretations of Middle Dnieper Pleistocene deposits: A commentary on Popova et al. (2024)","authors":"Przemysław Mroczek, Oleksiy Krokhmal', Maryna Komar, Maria Łanczont","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3700","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This commentary addresses the palaeogeographical and stratigraphic interpretations of Pleistocene deposits in the Middle Dnieper Valley as presented by Popova et al<i>.</i> (2024a). The authors proposed a revision of the stratigraphy in this region based on biochronological analyses and vertebrate taphocenoses, highlighting potential changes in the correlation of key sedimentary units. This approach provides intriguing insights into local deglaciation and postglacial processes; however, certain aspects of the applied methodology and data interpretation require further elaboration. The commentary draws attention to challenges related to the limited availability of SDQ index data for the m1 teeth of the genus <i>Arvicola</i>, which may affect the precision of the correlations. Additionally, we emphasise the necessity of incorporating more detailed lithological analyses to complement the proposed stratigraphic conclusions. Assigning key sedimentary units to global chronostratigraphic frameworks, in some cases, necessitates a stronger consideration of regional correlations based on available palaeopedological and malacological data from neighbouring areas. The commentary underscores the importance of integrated, multidisciplinary research methods that can significantly enhance our understanding of the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Middle Dnieper Valley and Eastern Europe as a whole.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 4","pages":"734-738"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repeated surging and rapid retreat of a tidewater glacier in Scotland (Younger Dryas/Greenland Stadial 1)","authors":"Tom Bradwell, Douglas I. Benn","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3701","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents evidence of glacier surging in the British landform record. We use new high-resolution multibeam-echosounder bathymetry data to map the submarine geomorphology of a former tidewater glacier that drained the Skye Icefield, NW Scotland, during the Younger Dryas Stadial (Greenland Stadial 1) ca. 12.9–11.7 ka. Our onshore and offshore mapping identifies a glacial landform assemblage indicative of surge-type behaviour, followed by rapid retreat and stagnation. We delimit three separate fjord-mouth advances of the Ainort Glacier — interpreted as palaeo-surges — successively decreasing in extent. During the quiescent phase of the final surge cycle, the glacier deposited a suite of cross-fjord De Geer moraines, interpreted here as annual moraines. Their pattern and spacing suggest that net annual glacier retreat rates increased significantly from around 25–75 ma<sup>−1</sup> to 150 ma<sup>−1</sup> to >300 ma<sup>−1</sup>, probably in the presence of seasonal sea ice. On this basis, we find that final post-surge retreat of the Ainort Glacier, from fjord mouth to marine limit (a distance of 3.5 km), was very rapid — probably taking just 20 years. Once wholly terrestrial, the glacier stagnated and did not experience further frontal oscillations. This work highlights one potential cause of asynchronous ice-mass responses in the Younger Dryas Stadial of Scotland and reinforces the importance of identifying surge-type glaciers in palaeoglaciological studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 4","pages":"622-633"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.3701","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren Knight, Clare M. Boston, Harold Lovell, Timothy T. Barrows, Eric A. Colhoun, David Fink, Nicholas C. Pepin
{"title":"Restricted cirque glaciers in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, during the Nahanagan Stadial (Greenland Stadial-1/Younger Dryas)","authors":"Lauren Knight, Clare M. Boston, Harold Lovell, Timothy T. Barrows, Eric A. Colhoun, David Fink, Nicholas C. Pepin","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3699","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Ireland, the Nahanagan Stadial (NS) was characterised by cirque glacier, plateau icefield and mountain ice cap expansion and is named after the cirque glacier type-site of Lough Nahanagan in the Wicklow Mountains. This period is broadly equivalent to the Younger Dryas Stadial and Greenland Stadial-1 (GS-1: ~12.9–11.7 ka). Here, we provide the first evaluation of the full extent of NS glaciation in the Wicklow Mountains by combining solar radiation modelling, mapping of glacial geomorphology, <sup>10</sup>Be and <sup>26</sup>Al cosmogenic surface exposure dating, 3D glacier reconstructions and analysis of snowblow and avalanching potential. We identify seven sites that hosted cirque glaciers at this time. Glacier extent was very restricted, with most glaciers only partially filling their cirques. Equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs) ranged from 470 ± 5 m a.s.l. (Lough Nahanagan) to 721 ± 5 m a.s.l. (Lough Cleevaun), with an average ELA of 599 m a.s.l. Higher snowblow and avalanching contributions at sites with lower ELAs demonstrate local topoclimatic influence on glacier growth and preservation alongside regional climate. The Wicklow Mountains provides a good example of marginal cirque glaciation during GS-1 and the importance of local topography and microclimate for sustaining glaciers in some mountain areas of Britain and Ireland.</p>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 4","pages":"604-621"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.3699","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lilia Popova, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Zoltán Barkaszi, Leonid Rekovets
{"title":"New fossils from the area of the Dnipro ice lobe and the Chibanian–Late Pleistocene boundary: A reply to Mroczek et al. (2025)","authors":"Lilia Popova, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Zoltán Barkaszi, Leonid Rekovets","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3702","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The stratigraphic and palaeogeographic interpretations in our article (Popova <i>et al.</i>, 2025) received criticism from Mroczek <i>et al.</i> (2025), who argued that our results contradict regional and global stratigraphic models and that we propose a revision of the Ukrainian regional stratigraphic scheme without sufficient data background. We want to clarify that the main focus of our study was to shed light on climatically induced biotic transformations in the Middle Dnipro area during deglaciation and postglacial stages. We did not revise the stratigraphic framework but only provided support for an already established correlation model, according to which the Dnipro stage is associated with MIS 6, the Kaidaky with MIS 5e and the Tiasmyn with MIS 5d. This stratigraphic scheme is opposed by Mroczek <i>et al.</i> (2025), who questioned the reliability of our results. Here, we address their comments and discuss an approach to deal with competing stratigraphic models and methods of biostratigraphic, palaeogeographical and palaeoecological interpretation.</p>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 3","pages":"558-562"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “The Pleistocene Witch Ground Ice Stream in the central North Sea”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3704","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reinardy B.T.I., Karstens J., Böttner C., Lichschlag A., Berndt C., Strandberg N.A. & Callow B.J. (2025). The Pleistocene Witch Ground Ice Stream in the central North Sea. <i>Journal of Quaternary Science</i>, 40: 185-200. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3691</p><p>Figure 6(A) displays a seismic root mean square (RMS) amplitude map but with an old version of the annotation which does not identify MSGL flowsets 1 to 5 described in the figure caption. Here, we provide the updated version of this figure with correct annotation that is referenced within the figure caption and discussed more widely within the text. In addition to the indicated MSGL flowsets 1 to 5, purple arrows have been added to indicate meltwater channels.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 3","pages":"563"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.3704","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Alvaro Buso JR., Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda, Francis Edward Mayle, Flávio Lima Lorente, Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira, Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen, Marlon Carlos França, Evandro Augusto de Souza Magalhães, José Albertino Bendassolli, Fabiana Monteiro de Oliveira, Geovane Souza Siqueira
{"title":"Ecological responses of the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot to Holocene climate change: Insights from the Lagoa Canto Grande pollen record, Espirito Santo, coastal Brazil","authors":"Antonio Alvaro Buso JR., Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda, Francis Edward Mayle, Flávio Lima Lorente, Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira, Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen, Marlon Carlos França, Evandro Augusto de Souza Magalhães, José Albertino Bendassolli, Fabiana Monteiro de Oliveira, Geovane Souza Siqueira","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3698","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study presents the modern pollen signature and Holocene vegetation and climate history of the evergreen forest and associated ecosystems in the Bahia Coastal Forest ecoregion of Brazil's Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot. Artificial pollen traps provided the modern pollen signature of the evergreen forest, which is marked by Urticaceae/Moraceae, <i>Simarouba</i>, <i>Crepidospermum</i>/<i>Protium</i>, <i>Sloanea</i>, Sapotaceae and <i>Diploon</i>, and presence of rare forest tree pollen types. The pollen signature of the wooded <i>mussununga</i>, an associated ecosystem, is characterized by <i>Byrsonima</i>, <i>Doliocarpus</i>, <i>Lundia</i> and Araliaceae. Fossil pollen from Lagoa Canto Grande shows that the early to middle Holocene (11 154–7731 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span>) vegetation was characterized by regional dominance of semi-deciduous forest, under a less humid and cooler climate than today, as well as coastal vegetation on sandy soils (<i>restinga</i>), mangrove and patches of alluvial forests. Relative sea-level rise during the middle Holocene caused regional changes in the distribution of alluvial forests, <i>restingas</i> and mangroves. A change to warmer and more humid climatic conditions during the middle to late Holocene (7731–434 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span>) led to forest community changes, with the establishment of the modern evergreen forest.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 4","pages":"588-603"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143945010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pleistocene habitats for proboscideans from five sites in the Japanese archipelago: Insights from isotopic composition of tooth enamel and dentin collagen","authors":"Yuichi I. Naito","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3697","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Megafauna became extinct during the late Quaternary, with climate changes and human activities the two main proposed extinction drivers. <i>Palaeoloxodon naumanni</i> (Naumann's elephant) and <i>Mammuthus primigenius</i> roamed the Japanese archipelago during the Pleistocene. In contrast to the increasing amount of chronological information regarding extinct elephants, stable isotopic composition of these animals is less well studied, despite its potential to reveal foraging ecologies and surrounding paleoenvironments. The isotopic compositions were measured for tooth enamel and dentin collagen of fifteen <i>P. naumanni</i> and five <i>Mammuthus</i> sp. specimens from Lake Nojiri in Honshu and four sites in Hokkaido, Japan. Statistical differences were observed between the carbon isotopic composition of tooth enamel of the Lake Nojiri elephants and those of the two elephant species in Hokkaido, suggesting more open grassland for the former. In Hokkaido, no overlap was observed in the isotopic compositions of the two species, suggesting a separation in foraging behaviors. The specimens had relatively low nitrogen isotopic composition for Late Pleistocene elephants possibly reflecting an environmental stress at the edge of their distributions. The large isotopic variations of Naumann's elephants suggest that their demise was not triggered by inflexibility in their feeding strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 4","pages":"579-587"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jqs.3697","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Çetin Şenkul, Yasemin Ünlü, Yavuz Özdemİr, Yusuf Kağan Kadioğlu, Şule Gürboğa
{"title":"New palaeolimnological record from West Anatolia (Paleo-Kuleönü Lake) provides new information on the activity of the Gölcük volcanism and the distribution of the Santorini Minoan eruption","authors":"Çetin Şenkul, Yasemin Ünlü, Yavuz Özdemİr, Yusuf Kağan Kadioğlu, Şule Gürboğa","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3688","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anatolia, which had active volcanoes during the Pleistocene and Holocene periods, was also influenced by volcanic eruptions around the Eastern Mediterranean. Therefore, tephrochronology is an important research topic in palaeoenvironmental studies conducted in Anatolia. This study focuses on the geochemical characteristics, chronologies and source areas of six different tephra layers identified in a 16 m sediment core obtained from Paleo-Kuleönü Lake in the Lake District of West Anatolia. Whole-rock geochemistry is used to determine the geochemical characteristics and source of the tephra layers, micro X-ray fluorescence analysis is used to determine relative element changes throughout the cores, and <sup>14</sup>C analysis is performed to establish the chronologies. The geochemistry of the Paleo-Kuleönü Lake tephra layers is consistent with the Gölcük volcanism located in West Anatolia province and the Minoan eruption within the Aegean volcanic province. The layers that resemble the geochemistry of the Gölcük volcanism accumulated at ~33 218 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span> (PLK-19-1; 30 cm), ~32 267 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span> (PLK-19-2: 18 cm), ~31 597 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span> (PLK-19-3; 8 cm), ~31 300 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span> (PLK-19-4; 17 cm) and ~26547 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span> (PLK-19-5; 13 cm) and are associated with the last eruptive cycle (Cycle III) of the volcanism. The closest tephra layer to the surface in the sediment core, designated as PLK-19-6 (~1.5 cm), shows geochemical similarities with the Santorini Minoan eruption. However, according to our data, the age of the tephra layer is ~4717 \u0000<span>bp</span>/~5542 cal a \u0000<span>bp</span>, which is inconsistent with the widely accepted date for the Minoan eruption in the literature. The discrepancy between the geochemical match and chronological inconsistency is discussed in the context of the results presented in the paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 3","pages":"420-436"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gülgün Ertunç, Ali Mohammadi, Attila Çiner, Kürşad Kadir Eriş, Erkan Aydar, Razyeh Lak, Ömer Yetemen
{"title":"Lake level fluctuation controls the formation, types, and abundance of coated grains in hypersaline lakes: a case study from Urmia Lake (NW Iran)","authors":"Gülgün Ertunç, Ali Mohammadi, Attila Çiner, Kürşad Kadir Eriş, Erkan Aydar, Razyeh Lak, Ömer Yetemen","doi":"10.1002/jqs.3694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3694","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The hypersaline Urmia Lake in NW Iran offers unique sedimentary environments sensitive to climate and environmental shifts, fostering coated grain formation and serving as a vital indicator of paleoenvironmental conditions. This study characterizes coated grains within a 25-m sediment core dating back to ~50 cal ka <span>bp</span>, assessing their significance through morphology, internal structures, mineralogy, and geochemistry. Coated grains in Urmia Lake exhibit concentric laminations, primarily calcite and aragonite, revealing alternating light carbonate-rich and dark organic-rich laminations. These reflect seasonal and long-term variations in water chemistry and biogenic production. Dry season algal blooms contribute to lamination, highlighting the interplay between seasonal climate fluctuations and the consequent lake water enrichment in calcium, carbonate, and bicarbonate ions. The diversity and abundance of coated grains indicate three main lake level fluctuation stages in the last ~50 cal ka: a lowering stage with dominant coated grains, a low lake level with dominant terrigenous fragments and minerals, and a high lake level with prominent <i>Artemia urmiana</i> fecal pellets. The role of the brine shrimp <i>A. urmiana</i> in coated grain formation involves absorbing calcium, carbonate, and bicarbonate ions and inhibiting coated grain formation during high lake levels while providing nuclei during lake lowering. An in-depth investigation of coated grains provides a chemical and biological formation framework, highlighting three main episodes in the lake's history.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quaternary Science","volume":"40 3","pages":"400-419"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}