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{"title":"Geoarchaeological study of the evolution of rice farming fields in prehistoric Yangtze Delta and Huai River regions of China","authors":"Yijie Zhuang ,&nbsp;Pin Ding ,&nbsp;Lina Zhuang ,&nbsp;Yonglei Wang ,&nbsp;Wenwan Wu ,&nbsp;Xia Wang ,&nbsp;Yulong Niu ,&nbsp;Guoping Sun ,&nbsp;Xingtao Wei ,&nbsp;Ling Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109293","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The construction of rice fields represents a milestone development in humans' continuous effort to modify and transform their environments for rice framing. They appeared very early in the Yangtze Delta region and continued to develop into diverse forms and structures, becoming essential parts of the expanding rice-farming economies and stimulating great social structural changes in prehistoric and historic times. This paper examines the physical environmental conditions, field construction and modification, and water management of prehistoric rice fields that were excavated recently in the Yangtze Delta and Huai River regions through geoarchaeological surveys of excavated fields and detailed micromorphological and sedimentation analyses of collected samples. We sketch out the broad developmental trajectory of rice fields from the preliminary field modification to systematic landscape transformation during the intensification process of rice farming with macro-scale environmental evidence and micro-morphological evidence. Our results show that alongside the macro-scale morphological changes of the rice fields with a noticeable trend of size increase over the long-term period, are more intensive field management practices as evidenced by the increasing presence of diagnostic soil micromorphological features such as concentric clay textural features and redoximorphic features caused by frequent wet-dry alternations from more sophisticated manipulation of field hydrologies and soils. We also compare the similarities and differences in the scale, structure, and soil and environmental conditions of rice fields in different regions and discuss their significance to understand different intensification processes and interactions with rice-farming societies in prehistoric Yangtze Delta and Huai River regions. We suggest that constrained by regional soil, hydrological and topographic differences, these regions might have undergone intensification and extensification processes. Typically, small fields or field-like structures in the Upper-and-Middle Huai River and around Taihu-Lake regions remained unchanged for a relatively long time until the late Majiabang when systematic transformation of local environments for large-scale rice farming began. This is in contrast with the Ningshao Plain where Hemudu-period rice fields were without field bunds and other facilities. However, the divergent regional trends in the scale and practices of rice farming around the Taihu Lake and Ningshao Plain regions might have converged during the Liangzhu period, leading to a significant expansion in rice fields, as vividly represented by the Shi'ao and Maoshan examples discussed in our paper.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109293"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143600512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using New Zealand's late-Quaternary fossil record to estimate the past distribution and habitats of a relict species (kākāpō: Strigops habroptila)","authors":"Alexander P. Boast ,&nbsp;Jamie R. Wood ,&nbsp;Trevor H. Worthy ,&nbsp;George L.W. Perry ,&nbsp;Janet M. Wilmshurst","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109287","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109287","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>New Zealand's (NZ's) endemic, flightless kākāpō (<em>Strigops habroptila</em>) – the world's heaviest parrot species - reached near-extinction due to human activity and predation by introduced mammals (51 known individuals between 1995 and 1996). Today, kākāpō only survive on managed predator-free sanctuaries (&lt;250 individuals), and rarely breed except during mast events of native rimu trees (<em>Dacrydium cupressinum</em>). Here, we review NZ's Late-Quaternary fossil record in relation to palaeovegetation, and determine whether it can be used to identify the past habitats and distribution of kākāpō. First, we describe the distribution of kākāpō fossils from c. 25ka until the present and the former habitat breadth of kākāpō. Second, by comparing the abundance of kākāpō fossils to those of similar-sized landbirds in each site, we identify how past kākāpō abundance was affected by habitat type. Although we identify that kākāpō exhibit strong taphonomic biases, we show that kākāpō are the fourth-most common bird taxon in NZ's late-Quaternary deposits (1351 Minimum Number of Individuals from 274 sites), and occupied all forests and adjacent habitats, on the NZ mainland prior to human settlement ca. 0.8 ka. However, we find little evidence that kākāpō occupied semi-arid shrublands, the high alpine zone, or most grassland/shrublands during glacial periods. Further, kākāpō were most abundant in humid, high precipitation forests, were rarest in drought-prone, low-rainfall scrub/forests, and were common in many rimu-free habitats. We also determine that contemporary kākāpō occupy a small proportion of their optimal habitat range. Our study demonstrates the value of late-Quaternary (ca. 50 ka to present) fossils for conservation biology and reveals how contemporary data alone can underestimate the habitat breadth of previously more widespread species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109287"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143609396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dating fluvial terraces on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau using the uranium comminution age method","authors":"Run Zhang ,&nbsp;Laifeng Li ,&nbsp;Xianyan Wang ,&nbsp;David William Hedding ,&nbsp;Jinyu Zhang ,&nbsp;Le Li ,&nbsp;Zhewen Xu ,&nbsp;Shenghui Ouyang ,&nbsp;Gaojun Li","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fluvial incision plays a crucial role in shaping regional landscapes, reflecting the dynamic interplay between tectonic forces and climate fluctuations. Accurate dating of fluvial terraces, which record both aggradation and incision processes, is essential for understanding the evolution of drainage systems. However, conventional dating methods such as radiocarbon (¹⁴C), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), and cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) techniques face limitations, particularly for terraces outside their optimal ranges or those with complex burial histories. This study introduces a novel approach based on the recoil loss of ²³⁴U from particle surfaces following fragmentation from bedrock, enabling the dating of silt terrace sediments without the need for well-buried or sorted samples. We apply this approach to terrace sequences along the Lancang and Jinsha rivers on the southeastern fringe of the Tibetan Plateau, an area that has been extensively studied for its geomorphology and sedimentology to investigate fluvial responses to tectonic and climatic drivers. Our results reveal a consistent decrease in ²³⁴U/²³⁸U ratios with increasing terrace height, approaching equilibrium values. The deposition ages derived from this method closely align with K-feldspar post-infrared infrared stimulated luminescence (pIRIR) ages from the Lancang River and show a positive correlation with electron spin resonance (ESR) ages from the Jinsha River. Based on the terrace ages presented here, we estimate long-term incision rates of 0.46 mm/yr for the Lancang River and 0.31 mm/yr for the Jinsha River since the middle Pleistocene. These findings underscore the potential of the uranium comminution age method as an effective tool for dating fluvial terrace deposits, providing an additional dating method to conventional dating techniques.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109264"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A 10,000-year lake-sediment based reconstruction of precipitation isotope values in the Canadian Rocky Mountains","authors":"Zachary C. Wagner ,&nbsp;Byron A. Steinman ,&nbsp;Matthew S. Finkenbinder ,&nbsp;Mark B. Abbott ,&nbsp;Nathan D. Stansell","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present a 10,000-year carbonate oxygen isotope (δ¹⁸O) record from Shark Lake, Alberta, (50.8411°N, 115.3983°W; 1,857 m above sea level) that provides insight on past changes in precipitation seasonality, regional hydroclimate dynamics and atmospheric circulation. Shark Lake has a hydrologically open configuration, with water isotope values that mirror annual mean precipitation, and contains a continuous sediment sequence consisting largely of authigenic carbonate minerals precipitated from the water column. The sediment δ¹⁸O record exhibits a shift from lower to higher-than-average δ¹⁸O values from the middle to late Holocene circa 4,100 calendar years before present (yr BP). This transition generally aligns with hypothesized transformations in atmospheric circulation that ostensibly led to reduced winter precipitation in northwestern North America and heightened aridity in the southwest during the late Holocene. Monte Carlo cross-correlation analysis demonstrates that other precipitation δ¹⁸O records from the Pacific Northwest have a significant positive correlation with the Shark Lake record, in contrast with records from the southern Rocky Mountains and central/eastern North America, which have a negative correlation with the Shark Lake record and others from the Northwest. We apply the previously established strong relationship between atmospheric circulation associated with the Pacific North American Pattern (PNA) and precipitation isotope values across North America to explain the marked coherency in precipitation δ¹⁸O reconstructions. Collectively, the paleo-records suggest a middle to late Holocene transition in the mean state of atmospheric circulation over North America from one similar to the negative phase of the PNA to one comparable to the positive PNA phase, in response to non-linear changes in ocean-atmosphere circulation driven by ice sheet decay and insolation forcing. This shift had substantial impacts on the source and isotopic composition of air masses traversing the continent and their interplay with circulation from the Gulf of Mexico as well as the seasonal amount and distributions of precipitation. Our results underscore the need for additional isotope-enabled climate model simulations and additional δ¹⁸O records, especially from understudied regions across North America, for a comprehensive view of seasonal-scale hydroclimate variations and synoptic-scale atmospheric circulation pattern changes over the Holocene.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109255"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143578243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental magnetism of late Holocene stalagmites from semi-arid karst in southern Australia","authors":"Tom Mallett ,&nbsp;Agathe Lisé-Pronovost ,&nbsp;Plinio Jaqueto ,&nbsp;Jay R. Black ,&nbsp;Janine Carmo ,&nbsp;Ricardo I.F. Trindade ,&nbsp;J.M. Kale Sniderman ,&nbsp;Kia A. Matley ,&nbsp;Jon D. Woodhead","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109290","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109290","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Whilst significant progress in speleothem environmental magnetism has been made in recent years, our knowledge of how magnetic proxies respond to Earth-system processes in arid/semi-arid environments is limited. In this study, we investigate calcite stalagmites that form under evaporative conditions near cave entrances in areas that receive low precipitation (∼250 mm/year). Such stalagmites have yet to be explored in environmental magnetism, and are typically avoided in paleoclimatology due to complications in their geochemistry. Proxies based on detrital inclusions, such as speleothem palynology, have, however, proven favorable in these conditions. Here we report the first combination of speleothem magnetism with published pollen and charcoal records from two stalagmites formed over the last ∼2400 years at Webbs Cave, located on the ∼230,000 km² Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia. Rock magnetic experiments were performed using anhysteretic and isothermal remnant magnetizations, hysteresis loops, and low-temperature remanence measurement to investigate the concentration, phases, and grain size of the magnetic mineral assemblage. Analysis of detrital particles and speleothem porosity was undertaken using x-ray microtomography. The magnetic mineralogy of both stalagmites is typical of stalagmites globally in being dominated by magnetite or maghemite with dominant grain size distributions in the superparamagnetic to single-domain range, which occurs alongside goethite and potentially hematite. Both the low and high coercivity fractions co-vary and are consistent with local soils, furthering the link between stalagmite magnetism and pedogenesis. However, rather than increasing with precipitation, we infer that magnetic particle concentrations can increase during drier climates, based on correlations to the stalagmite pollen records. This likely results from increased detritus in available drip waters, along with increased deposition of localized cave dust during (dry) periods of slow stalagmite growth. While the magnetic particles in near-entrance stalagmites may derive from multiple transport modes, their local soil provenience forms the main control on their magnetic properties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109290"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143563781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The importance of tropical tree-ring chronologies for global change research","authors":"Peter Groenendijk ,&nbsp;Flurin Babst ,&nbsp;Valerie Trouet ,&nbsp;Ze-Xin Fan ,&nbsp;Daniela Granato-Souza ,&nbsp;Giuliano Maselli Locosselli ,&nbsp;Mulugeta Mokria ,&nbsp;Shankar Panthi ,&nbsp;Nathsuda Pumijumnong ,&nbsp;Abrham Abiyu ,&nbsp;Rodolfo Acuña-Soto ,&nbsp;Eduardo Adenesky-Filho ,&nbsp;Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez ,&nbsp;Claudio Roberto Anholetto Junior ,&nbsp;José Roberto Vieira Aragão ,&nbsp;Gabriel Assis-Pereira ,&nbsp;Claudia C. Astudillo-Sánchez ,&nbsp;Ana Carolina Barbosa ,&nbsp;Nathan de Oliveira Barreto ,&nbsp;Giovanna Battipaglia ,&nbsp;Pieter A. Zuidema","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tropical forests and woodlands are key components of the global carbon and water cycles. Yet, how climate change affects these biogeochemical cycles is poorly understood because of scarce long-term observations of tropical tree growth. The recent rise in tropical tree-ring studies may help to fill this gap, but a large-scale quantitative analysis of their potential in global change research is missing.</div><div>We compiled a list of all tropical tree species known to form annual tree rings and built a network encompassing 492 tropical ring-width chronologies to evaluate the potential to generate insights on climate sensitivity of woody productivity and to build centuries-long reconstructions of climate variability. We assess chronology quality, length, and climatic representativeness and explore how these change along climatic gradients. Finally, we applied species-distribution modeling to identify regions with potential for tree-ring studies in ecological and climatic studies.</div><div>The number of tropical chronologies has rapidly increased, with ∼400 added over the past two decades. Yet, tree-ring studies are biased towards high-elevation locations, with gaps in warmer and wetter climates, on the African continent, and for angiosperm species. The longest chronologies with strongest climate signals (i.e., synchronous growth variations among trees) are from cool regions. In wet regions, climate signals and precipitation sensitivity decrease. Most tropical regions harbor 5–15 (and up to 80) species with proven potential to generate chronologies. The potential for long climate reconstructions is particularly high in drier high elevation sites. Our findings support strategies to effectively expand tree-ring research in the tropics, by targeting specific species and regions. Tropical dendrochronology can importantly contribute to global change research by generating historical context of climate extremes, quantifying climate sensitivity of woody productivity and benchmarking vegetation models.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"355 ","pages":"Article 109233"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A watery ice sheet demise: Formation and drainage of ice-dammed lakes in Southern Norway during the Early Holocene","authors":"Fredrik Høgaas ,&nbsp;Anders Romundset ,&nbsp;Katherine Aurand ,&nbsp;Jacob Bendle ,&nbsp;Mikis van Boeckel ,&nbsp;Louise Hansen ,&nbsp;Oddvar Longva","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The final demise of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in southern Norway was associated with partial glacial retreat in ice-dammed lakes, but how the subaqueous retreat affected glacial dynamics is largely unknown. Here, we present results from comprehensive mapping that demonstrate the existence and final catastrophic drainage of multiple ice-dammed lakes in southern Norway during the Early Holocene, as well as key landforms that detail the course of glacial retreat. We have identified several previously unknown ice-dammed lakes and described three hitherto unknown 15–80 km³-large glacial lake outburst floods. The floods formed mega dunes, large flood bars, canyons and other distinctive features in the impacted areas downstream. We present a relative chronology for the ice-dammed lakes and drainage events that, coupled with existing chronological constraints, allow detailed palaeoglaciology reconstructions in a period of rapid deglaciation. The ice-dammed lake record documents that the mountainous areas became ice-free first, whereas the large inland valleys in southern Norway were deglaciated last. The very last remnants of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in southern Norway were probably located in the valleys around Jotunheimen. The ice-dammed lakes induced dynamic glacial retreat and probably caused a significant increase in ice-sheet drawdown and retreat rates compared to where glacial retreat was land-based, e.g. as indicated by a near tenfold increase in retreat rates when the Store Dølasjø ice-dammed lake formed, and the glacier became water-terminating. The study highlights the value of ice-dammed lakes for reconstructing palaeo-ice sheets, and the data serve as a relevant analogue for future ice mass loss in glacierized regions worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"355 ","pages":"Article 109250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecological response of a high-elevation peatland to late Holocene hydroclimate change on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Jingjing Sun ,&nbsp;Yingfan Xia ,&nbsp;Zicheng Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>High-elevation regions around the world have experienced pronounced climate change, resulting in a multitude of responses in terrestrial ecosystems. Here we used multi-proxy data—including dry bulk density, loss on ignition, plant macrofossils, diatoms, stable oxygen isotopes (δ¹⁸O_bulk) and C/N ratios—to understand the response of peatland vegetation and carbon accumulation to hydroclimate changes from two peat cores of a bamboo-sedge-<em>Sphagnum</em> peatland (27.621°N, 98.590°E; 3037 m asl) on the southern Hengduan Mountains at the southeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. The cores were dated by AMS ¹⁴C radiocarbon dates with a basal age of 4500 cal yr BP. The peatland was formed on an abandoned floodplain, as evidenced by the gravel and biotite at the base, likely in response to the weakening South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) in the late Holocene. From 4500 to 1300 cal yr BP, the gradual increase in the δ¹⁸O_bulk values—reflecting less intense convection in monsoon source regions and locally at time—indicates a continued weakening SASM and drying trend during the late Holocene. Furthermore, the low apparent carbon accumulation rate (aCAR) of 4 g C m⁻² yr⁻¹ during that time is likely due to the great decomposition of dominant bamboo-derived organic matter. The higher δ¹⁸O_bulk value at 1300-800 cal yr BP—possibly corresponding to the “Medieval Climate Anomaly” (MCA)—than the Little Ice Age (LIA) at 800-200 cal yr BP indicates a drier MCA, supported also by high charcoal content, low diatom abundance and high C/N ratios at our sites. The large difference of 8‰ in the δ¹⁸O_bulk values between the MCA and LIA suggests that local hydrological processes might have amplified the effect of monsoon-mediated hydroclimate on δ¹⁸O variations. The higher aCAR during the MCA at 15 and 28 g C m⁻² yr⁻¹ for two cores than during the LIA at 13 and 18 g C m⁻² yr⁻¹ suggests that the relatively dry climate during the MCA promotes plant production and peat accumulation in this terrestrialized, still-wet and then sedge-dominated peatland. The increase of <em>Sphagnum</em> and other mosses and high δ¹⁸O_bulk values during the last 70 years reveal a dry local environment that is also confirmed by the decreasing precipitation and weakening SASM in instrumental climate records. Our results indicate that the development and carbon accumulation of this river-side peatland are sensitive to the changing monsoon strengths and hydroclimate, with strong modulations and amplifications by local hydrology and water sources on carbon accumulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"355 ","pages":"Article 109269"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling the hidden source of major historical earthquakes: A multi-scale, trans-disciplinary approach to the 1456 and 1688 Sannio earthquakes (Mw 7.0, southern Italian Apennines)","authors":"Vincenzo Amato ,&nbsp;Sabatino Ciarcia ,&nbsp;Paolo Galli ,&nbsp;Domenico Cicchella ,&nbsp;Antonio Galderisi ,&nbsp;Lorenzo Monaco ,&nbsp;Giada Fernandez ,&nbsp;Roberto Isaia ,&nbsp;Sebastien Nomade ,&nbsp;Alison Pereira ,&nbsp;Biagio Giaccio","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109282","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109282","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The southern Apennine chain ranks among Europe's regions with the highest historical seismicity, yet its seismogenic structures remain poorly defined or completely unknown, including those of highly destructive Mw ∼7.0, 1456 and 1688 Sannio earthquakes, which are examined in this study. Using a multi-scale, interdisciplinary approach - combining detailed field investigations (stratigraphic, geomorphological, structural, and paleoseismological analyses), tephrochronological and OSL dating, and reassessment of macroseismic intensity distribution from archival sources - this study identifies a possible source for these earthquakes. It corresponds to a ∼45 km normal fault system composed by two main branches (Eastern Calore Fault and Western Calore Fault) with primary segments trending E-W to ESE-WNW and dipping N- to NNE. Segments extend along the southern border of both eastern and western Calore River sub-basins and are partially connected by NNW-SSE to N-S trending, east-dipping, transfer zone fault splays. Although the morphostructural evidence of Quaternary tectonic activity is unevenly expressed in both sub-basins, they share a similar Middle Pleistocene-to-Holocene morpho-sedimentary evolution, suggesting a common driving factor, ascribable to the sub-coeval activity of the fault segments delimiting both sub-basins. On a short-time scale, this study provides the first evidence of a post-14 ka occurrence of a paleoearthquake with a surface displacement ≳0.7 m, as well as of a decametric off-set affecting post-9 ka sediments. These coseismic surface ruptures have an estimated recurrence time of approximately 1400 years, with the two more recent events likely corresponding to the Mw ∼7.0, 1456 and 1688 Sannio earthquakes. Further detailed paleoseismological investigations are recommended to uncover direct evidence of co-seismic displacement linked to the 1456, 1688, and earlier earthquakes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109282"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Freshwater exploitation at Ajvide -Pitted ware culture fishing practises investigated through laser ablation facilitated strontium isotope analyses” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 344 (2024) 108967]","authors":"Beatrice Krooks ,&nbsp;Adam Boethius","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109283","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109283"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}