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{"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}

{"title":"Nonlinear diatom responses to millennial-scale climate-mediated terrestrial-aquatic interactions in a treeline lake on the Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Qian Wang ,&nbsp;Kathleen M. Rühland ,&nbsp;John P. Smol ,&nbsp;Xiangdong Yang ,&nbsp;Enlou Zhang ,&nbsp;Rong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109285","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109285","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the complex, nonlinear responses of aquatic ecosystems to climate-driven terrestrial-aquatic interactions is crucial for identifying the mechanisms underlying ecosystem dynamics. This study investigates the diatom community changes over the past 20 kyr in Cuoqia Lake, a treeline lake on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. By integrating fossil diatom assemblages with cladoceran, geochemical, and sedimentological proxies, we reveal how differential mechanisms influenced diatom responses from post-glacial lake formation to early Holocene treeline shifts. Our results indicate abrupt, phase-dependent shifts in diatom and cladoceran communities during major climatic transitions, particularly at the Late Glacial/Holocene boundary. These regime shifts were likely driven by cascading effects of glacial retreat, soil development and subsequent increases in organic matter inputs associated with climate warming and treeline migration. Notably, while diatoms responded quickly to initial climate warming, cladocerans exhibited a delayed response, reflecting its greater sensitivity to catchment vegetation stabilization. These findings highlight the attendant changes in climate, vegetation, and lake ecosystems on millennial time scales, illustrating the tight biogeochemical coupling between terrestrial succession and lake dynamics during glacial retreat and landscape colonization. This study offers critical insights into the mechanisms behind primary succession in alpine lake ecosystems and provides a valuable framework for understanding the ecological impacts of ongoing and future climate warming.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"356 ","pages":"Article 109285"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534550","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":"Peak glacial-to-Heinrich-1 changes in Denmark Strait Overflow and seawater stratification in the Nordic Seas, a switchboard of changes in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the 'Nordic Heat Pump'","authors":"Michael Sarnthein ,&nbsp;Patrick Blaser","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Today, the sub-surface Denmark Strait Overflow (DSO) and the Iceland-Scotland Overflow form the starting points of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and compensate for the poleward flowing Norwegian and Irminger branches of the North Atlantic surface current that drive the 'Nordic Heat Pump'. During peak glacial and early deglacial times, ice sheets on Iceland and Greenland, and ice-induced isostatic and eustatic sea-level changes reduced the Denmark Strait aperture and DSO. Yet, extremely high benthic stable carbon and oxygen isotope values together with very high ventilation ages of bottom waters suggest a north-south density gradient of intermediate-waters and persistent flow of partially Arctic-sourced waters through both Denmark Strait and Faeroe Channel, analogous to today. The arrival of deglacial meltwaters off northern Iceland induced the onset of Heinrich-Stadial 1 near 18.400 yr BP, as derived from ¹⁴C-plateau tuning. They caused a tipping point in DSO circulation shown by 3 °C warming, reduced ventilation and ventilation ages of bottom water, moreover, by increased radiogenic Nd isotope signatures at luff-side Site PS2644. These records suggest a sudden subsurface incursion of Atlantic intermediate waters across basaltic sediments from S.E. of Iceland. Deep-water convection off Norway then was replaced by weak brine water formation, coeval with a breakdown of the 'Nordic Heat Pump' evidenced by a temperature drop on Greenland. After 16.2 cal ka, a major meltwater outbreak from the Barents ice shelf led to modified Heinrich-1-style circulation until ∼15.1 cal. ka. Conversely, the DSO intensified during interstadial and Holocene times, causing sediment hiatuses at Site PS2644.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"355 ","pages":"Article 109181"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534363","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":"","authors":"Moh Waldi Pratama ,&nbsp;Muchamad Hartanto ,&nbsp;Okto Ijen Aritonang ,&nbsp;Wiwik Ariska","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"355 ","pages":"Article 109247"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143519441","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 setting of the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution across the Fertile Crescent","authors":"Mordechai Stein ,&nbsp;Nigel Goring-Morris ,&nbsp;Yoav Ben Dor ,&nbsp;Yigal Erel","doi":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109265","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109265","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transformation of human culture from hunter-gatherer societies to sedentary farming communities represents the most prominent revolution in human history, termed the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution (NAR). The NAR was manifested in the cultivation and domestication of wild plants across the ‘Fertile Crescent’ from around the 11th millennium BP. Here, we investigate the environmental conditions that enabled the establishment of the first agricultural settlements in the southern Jordan Valley and compare these settings to the northern segments of the ‘Fertile Crescent’ (northern Mesopotamia). In particular we investigated the mineralogical composition of surface cover soils and the hydrological conditions in the Gilgal Basin where a few of the early agriculture settlements of the late Natufian-PPNA cultures were established. We focused our study on the Salibiya sedimentary section (and archeological sites) in the Gilgal Basin, where a sequence of fine detritus sediments accumulated during the post glacial to the early Holocene period. OSL ages from the Salibiya sedimentary section lie between ∼24 and 11 ka BP, spanning the time of Lake Lisan retreat from its highest stands of ∼180 ± 10 m below mean sea level (= m bmsl) to below 320 m bmsl. The Salibiya sedimentary section consists of silty detritus sediments that comprise recycled mountain soils washed from the adjacent Samarian Mountains to the Gilgal Basin. The ‘mountain soils’ in their turn consist of desert dust grains (e.g., quartz, calcite, clays) that were blown to the Levant region from the north Sahara deserts, mostly during arid periods. Enhanced amounts of desert dusts were blown to the region during hyperarid periods that coincided with the Heinrich Stadials (HS) in the northern latitudes, e.g., at ∼24 ka, ∼16ka and ∼13ka. The hyperarid and dusty periods (which were harsh for the early-Natufian hunter-gatherers) were followed by wetter intervals when fresh groundwater activity resumed in the Judean and Samarian Mountains, e.g., at ∼16-15 and ∼12-11 ka. The availability of fertile ‘mountain soils’ and water during and after the Younger Dryas provided a favorable environmental setting that supported the establishment of early agriculture settlements in the Gilgal Basin (and others) in the Jordan Valley and impacted the transformation from the Epipalaeolithic Early Natufian hunter-gatherers to the Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B (PPNA, B) cultures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20926,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary Science Reviews","volume":"355 ","pages":"Article 109265"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143510979","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}