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{"title":"Revisiting the ‘Hole of Bad Aussee’: A key sedimentary record of Quaternary landscape dynamics in the Eastern Alps (Austria)","authors":"Clemens Schmalfuss ,&nbsp;Stephanie Neuhuber ,&nbsp;Gustav Firla ,&nbsp;Christopher Lüthgens ,&nbsp;Bennet Schuster ,&nbsp;Lukas Gegg ,&nbsp;Flavio S. Anselmetti ,&nbsp;Markus Fiebig","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite a long history of geologic research in the European Eastern Alps, Quaternary landscape evolution before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) remains poorly constrained due to the scarcity of dated sedimentary archives, particularly in inneralpine regions. In this study, we reinvestigate an 880-m-long drill core from Bad Aussee (Styria, Austria), originally drilled for salt exploration. Sedimentological, geochemical, and geochronological analyses allow us to identify three major depositional units spanning the last two glacial cycles. The succession starts with glaciolacustrine deposition during the penultimate glaciation (Rissian, Marine Isotope Stage 6), consisting mainly of glacially sourced material of local provenance (carbonates and evaporites). In contrast, the &gt;500-m-thick overlying deltaic and lacustrine deposits (Early to Middle Würmian) indicate a source area dominated by crystalline rocks. This observation suggests that, for a prolonged period between the Last Interglacial and the Late Würmian (MIS 2), the Upper Enns Valley drained into today's Traun Valley, crossing the present-day drainage divide. Furthermore, the lack of glacial deposits indicates that glacial advances during this phase did not reach the Bad Aussee Basin. On top of the succession, a carbonate-rich subglacial till can be attributed to the LGM. While questions regarding the formation mechanism of this exceptionally deep and confined Quaternary basin remain, our results challenge the previously suggested model of subglacial dissolution and subsequent formation and rapid infill of a deep lake. Salt-related syndepositional subsidence could serve as an alternative explanation for the observed stratigraphy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"755 ","pages":"Article 110086"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145754152","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":"Paleoeconomy and mortuary practices in the Mediterranean Copper Age: zooarchaeology of the Bell Beaker assemblage from Padru Jossu, Sardinia (Italy)","authors":"Luca Lai ,&nbsp;Ornella Fonzo ,&nbsp;Jessica F. Beckett ,&nbsp;Robert H. Tykot ,&nbsp;Ethan Goddard ,&nbsp;David Hollander","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Bell Beaker phenomenon, as evidenced by its distinctive material culture, is regarded as a pivotal period of intensified connectivity in Western Europe and the Western Mediterranean, spanning several centuries from the mid-3rd millennium BC to different periods in different regions. The nature and mechanisms behind the diffusion of its markers have been under interpretive scrutiny for many decades, until the recent contribution of stable isotopes and ancient DNA supporting the reconstructed picture of an increasingly mobile lifestyle. Some aspects, however, remain elusive. This study addresses two key areas: the economic practices related to livestock, and the funerary practices recorded at the burial site of Padru Jossu in central southern Sardinia, with special reference to animal offerings. Whereas the context's human remains have been only partially morphologically and isotopically studied, the results of the comprehensive examination of the faunal remains are presented here. A substantial prevalence of caprines, found alongside and among the human remains, provided clues that could reflect management practices and ceremonial preferences across several generations. Data on age and skeletal districts provide clues regarding ceremonial use that are interpreted in light of available stable isotopic results, and then compared with evidence from other sites in the area across Sardinian prehistory and other surrounding Mediterranean regions. This illuminates apparent trends in management practices and contributes to our knowledge of Mediterranean Bell Beaker practices and economy, including potentially symbolic choices, adding to our knowledge of the diverse funerary rituals characterizing this cultural phenomenon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"755 ","pages":"Article 110130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146037727","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":"Romito 9: A new Palaeolithic burial from Grotta del Romito (Calabria, Italy)","authors":"F. Martini ,&nbsp;D. Lo Vetro ,&nbsp;F. Macciardi ,&nbsp;L. Calcagnile ,&nbsp;G. Quarta ,&nbsp;G. De Benedetto ,&nbsp;G. Vincenti ,&nbsp;O. Rickards ,&nbsp;G. Scorrano ,&nbsp;P.F. Fabbri","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During recent excavations at Grotta del Romito (Papasidero, northern Calabria, Italy), a new Upper Palaeolithic burial—designated Romito 9—was identified. The burial pit had been partially disturbed ab antiquo, resulting in an altered depositional context. The burial pertains to a female individual, approximately 11–12 years of age, and is associated with an archaeological layer dated to 16,129 ± 100 uncal BP (19,809–19,157 cal BP, 2σ), corresponding to the evolved phase of the local Epigravettian culture. Romito 9 presents a richly furnished burial, featuring the use of red ochre and abundant ornamentation. It represents the earliest known funerary evidence chronologically positioned between the Gravettian burials of Italy and those of the Final Epigravettian. This intermediate position underscores the continuity of complex ceremonial traditions characteristic of the Gravettian, prior to the ritual simplification documented in southern Italy during the Final Epigravettian. The individual, likely a prepubertal female at the time of death, exhibits dental dimensions more closely aligned with Middle Upper Palaeolithic (MUP) individuals than with those from the Late Upper Palaeolithic (LUP). Her estimated adult stature would have exceeded that of Romito's LUP adult females by approximately 20 cm, approaching the maximum values recorded for LUP females and aligning closely with the average stature of LUP adult males from the site. Given the paucity of comparative data for LUP individuals of the same age range, her body proportions and overall dimensions appear to be more consistent with MUP populations. A meticulous excavation strategy, combined with detailed post-excavation analysis of the funerary context, facilitated the reconstruction of both taphonomic and post-depositional processes. This work further enabled the creation of a visual model illustrating the original position of the buried individual and portions of the associated ornamentation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"755 ","pages":"Article 110020"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145799197","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":"Variability and use of laminar products in the late Middle Paleolithic of the Central Balkans","authors":"Sofija Dragosavac ,&nbsp;Anđa Petrović ,&nbsp;Bojana Mihailović","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The European Middle Paleolithic laminar technologies can be divided into Levallois and non-Levallois blade production. Despite the abundance of detailed publications about the reduction strategies and their differences, only a few discuss the causes of their variability. The paper addresses the variability of laminar technology from the aspect of its use, mobility, and technological organization of Neanderthal communities in the Central Balkans in MIS 3. Results of use-wear analysis of Levallois and non-Levallois laminar products are compared with metrics, frequency, and raw material procurement, as indicators of their potential for carrying and reshaping with an aim to represent the fundamental differences between curated and expedient technological strategies. Integrated results, considered in the wider regional context, contribute to the understanding of laminar variability in the Middle Paleolithic, as the reconstruction of the technological behavior of Neanderthal communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 110081"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145646037","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":"The new key sections of the Last Interglacial transgression in the Eurasian Arctic (Eastern White Sea): paleoenvironmental reconstructions and interregional correlations","authors":"Nataliya Zaretskaya ,&nbsp;Ekaterina Taldenkova ,&nbsp;Maksim Ruchkin ,&nbsp;Yaroslav Ovsepyan ,&nbsp;Olga Rudenko ,&nbsp;Irina Timofeeva","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>New stratigraphic, micropaleontological and geochronometric (optically stimulated luminescence, OSL) data for the basal sediment units of the six sections around the periphery of the Kuloi Plateau (Zimnii Coast and Soyana-Kuloi River valley) assign them to the end of MIS 6 – MIS 5 Boreal (Eemian) transgression in the eastern White Sea Region. Most of the studied Boreal marine beds are composed of two units, with the dark grey fossiliferous silty clay overlain by beige and light grey loose (sand and gravel) variously bedded material. Presumably high sedimentation rates due to the proximity to the Kuloi Plateau resulted in the low total abundance of microfossils and their relatively monotonous taxonomic composition. Benthic foraminifers display almost equal proportions and coexistence of ecologically different groups occurring in the Arctic shelf seas, from shallow inner shelf inhabitants to relatively deep-water ones. Rare ostracods are represented by typical dwellers of the Arctic mid-outer shelf areas. Similar to benthic foraminifers, dinocysts show a mixture of heterotrophic, including cryophilic, and autotrophic forms. The constant presence of freshwater green algae points to river runoff influence. Findings of rare polar and subpolar planktonic foraminifers together with benthic foraminifer species <em>Cassidulina neoteretis</em> allow assuming periodical inflows of subsurface Atlantic-derived water. Altogether, this gives evidence for an Arctic-type marine basin likely corresponding to the early stage of the transgression probably including the local highstand prior to regression. The age assignment of these beds is supported by OSL dates from overlying sandy layers generally ranging between 140 and 87 ka, with possibly older (MIS 7) age in one of the Zimnii Coast sections.</div><div>The cross-correlation through the Northern Eurasia enables us to state that the common characteristic of the Last Interglacial (LIG) marine sedimentary succession is its two-unit structure. The lower unit corresponds to the early stage of inundation, the upper indicates the littoral sedimentary setting during the stillstand and regressive stage. The substantial range of available dates from 160 to 80 ka, encompassing the end of the MIS 6 glaciation, its degradation, and part of the MIS 5 stage, precludes precise determination of the duration of the Boreal transgression.</div><div>The “gap” in the occurrence of the LIG marine deposits in the northeastern Eurasia along the Laptev and western East Siberian coasts might be related to the formation and existence of the glacioisostatic forebulge at the periphery of the MIS 6 ice sheets in combination with local neotectonic movements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 110067"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694603","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":"The Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Lomekwi faunas, West Turkana, Kenya: systematics, paleoecology, and biochronology","authors":"Denis Geraads ,&nbsp;René Bobe ,&nbsp;Thomas A. Püschel ,&nbsp;Carol V. Ward ,&nbsp;J. Michael Plavcan ,&nbsp;Fredrick Kyalo Manthi","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110078","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We describe here the vertebrate fauna collected by the West Turkana Paleo Project at Lomekwi, a site best known for yielding the holotype of <em>Kenyanthropus platyops</em> and Lomekwian stone tools, and consisting of several collecting areas providing fossil samples ranging in age from about 3.6 to 2.2 Ma. Analysis of the newly recovered material, alongside a thorough revision of earlier collections, has led to the identification of 85 vertebrate taxa, which provide biochronological indications that help refine the site's chronology and shed light on the paleoenvironmental conditions prevailing during a critical period of early hominin diversification. The newly described fauna illustrates that during the time of <em>Kenyanthropus,</em> hominins shared their landscapes with a rich assemblage of vertebrates, including abundant megaherbivores, some 28 species of artiodactyls, diverse large and medium-size carnivores, and giant crocodiles as apex predators in the lakes and rivers of the Turkana region in the Pliocene. Among primates, the recurring association of <em>Theropithecus</em> with hominins is found at Lomekwi as it is elsewhere. Paleoenvironmental proxies from the Turkana region emphasize the complex and dynamic nature of the habitats that supported this rich biodiversity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 110078"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145797807","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":"The Lateglacial fossil avifauna from Grotta del Romito (Calabria, Southern Italy) and the exploitation of birds by the Upper Paleolithic hunters","authors":"Lisa Carrera ,&nbsp;Fabio Martini","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Grotta del Romito represents one of the most relevant Upper Palaeolithic sequences of Southern Italy, spanning the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Lateglacial (GS1 and GI1) and providing remarkable insights on the Gravettian and Epigravettian lifeways and symbolic behaviours. With this work, we analyse the avian assemblage from Grotta del Romito in order to clarify the dynamics of bird exploitation by the Upper Paleolithic people and assess changes in the paleonvironment due to the Lateglacial climatic shift. Based on the bird species, the surroundings of the cave were characterized by forests alternated with open grasslands, rocky exposures and riverine or marshy habitats. Between unit E and unit D the bird taxa indicate a change from grassland-dominated habitats to forest-dominated habitats, correlated with the beginning of the GI1. The food exploitation of birds, indicated by a number of anthropic modifications, is more intense in the Final Epigravettian and involves Galliformes, Anatidae, Rallidae, Otidiformes, Strigidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Corvidae and Passseriformes. The Final Epigravettian hunter-gatherers of Grotta del Romito were also interested in the wings of large Accipitridae (<em>Aquila chrysaetos</em>, cf. <em>Gyps fulvus</em>) for utilitarian purposes or symbolic-mediated behaviour.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 110083"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145749778","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":"Geomorphological features of Queen Charlotte Strait, Pacific coast of Canada, and their implications for ice-sheet retreat and relative sea-level changes during the last deglaciation","authors":"Zhen Li ,&nbsp;Cooper D. Stacey ,&nbsp;Tark S. Hamilton ,&nbsp;Robert Kung ,&nbsp;J. Vaughn Barrie ,&nbsp;Jordan Eamer ,&nbsp;John Shaw ,&nbsp;Randolph J. Enkin","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Queen Charlotte Strait (QCSt), along the glacial Pacific margin of Canada, preserves seabed geomorphological records of past tectonic, glacial, and oceanographic processes, particularly since the Last Glacial Maximum. These records can provide an analogue for predicting future seabed and sediment dynamics in contemporary ice-covered region and their surroundings under global warming. The present study identifies and maps the seabed geomorphology and stratigraphy of QCSt by analyzing extensive multibeam bathymetry data, sub-bottom profiles, seafloor images, surface sediments, sediment cores, and ¹⁴C dates. The analysis of seabed morphology, erosional and depositional patterns, and sedimentary lithofacies of the late glacial marine geology and postglacial stratigraphy in QCSt collectively allows interpretation of the sequence of processes that formed, shaped, and filled this region. Four primary stratigraphic units were delineated: bedrock, moraines, glaciomarine deposits, and postglacial deposits, along with their seafloor distributions. Seabed features recognized in specific areas include active or relict sand and gravel bedforms, gas masking in thick hemipelagic muds, fan deltas, landslide-gully-fan systems, channels, iceberg lineations, and glass sponge reefs. A series of NNE–SSW-oriented moraines generally indicate ice-sheet retreat eastward toward the Coast Mountains during the last deglaciation, while arcuate moraines northwest of Malcolm Island, curving approximately southward, reflect valley-glacier retreat toward the northern mountains of Vancouver Island. The unconformity atop the glaciomarine deposits, leveled banks, terraces, and other truncated bedforms may indicate past lower sea levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"754 ","pages":"Article 110082"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145938597","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":"From lapping waters to marshy lands and back: Quaternary environmental dynamics of the North Caspian inferred from the Raigorod site and contemporary regional correlations","authors":"Andrey Zastrozhnov ,&nbsp;Guzel Danukalova ,&nbsp;Eugenija Osipova ,&nbsp;Ravil Kurmanov ,&nbsp;Mikhail Golovachev ,&nbsp;Vadim Titov ,&nbsp;Alexey Tesakov ,&nbsp;Eugeniy Zinoviev ,&nbsp;Svetlana Trofimova ,&nbsp;Dmitry Zastrozhnov","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Caspian Sea underwent a complex series of transgressive and regressive episodes during the Quaternary, with the North Caspian region particularly sensitive to even minor sea-level fluctuations. Outcrops along the Volga River preserve a valuable depositional record of these changes. The Raigorod site, one of the northernmost sections, provides a key stratigraphic archive for reconstructing regional Quaternary environmental changes, but aspects of its stratigraphy, sedimentary architecture, and geochronology have remained uncertain. In this study, using a multi-proxy approach, combining companion borehole data, biolithostratigraphy, geological mapping, and OSL dating, we refined the regional Quaternary framework and clarified several debated regional stratigraphic boundaries. This multidisciplinary approach permitted us to stratify the entire Quaternary interval of the Raigorod site into a series of regional horizons and subhorizons including the Akchagylian, Apsheronian, Tyurkyanian, Bakunian, Khazarian and Khvalynian. Our results show that the Raigorod site evolved from a nearshore setting during the Akchagylian–Apsheronian transgressive phases in the Early Pleistocene to a fluvial regime during the Tyurkyanian regression at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene. A subsequent Bakunian transgression re-established marine conditions in the study area. The early Khazarian phase is characterized by alternating transgressive and regressive events. Borehole data confirm that Singilian deposits are embedded within the Khazarian sequence, supporting our earlier regional interpretations. The Singilian phase reflects widespread regression and marshland development at the end of the Middle Pleistocene, around MIS 7–6, although OSL dates suggest a younger MIS 5 age. Upper Khazarian deposits reflect stable floodplain conditions driven by local hydrology rather than global climatic forcing. Finally, the overlying Atelian unit, traditionally used as a regional marker, is reinterpreted as periglacial alluvium rather than subaerial loess deposits formed during a major regression, likely associated with MIS 4-3. Our results highlight the value of integrated stratigraphic approaches for regional correlations, while emphasizing limitations in OSL dating in sedimentary settings with complex hydrological and hydrogeological dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"753 ","pages":"Article 110058"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145685365","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":"The role of climate and eustatic sea-level changes in post-Eemian sedimentary succession in the southern Baltic Sea region","authors":"Robert J. Sokołowski ,&nbsp;Anna Hrynowiecka ,&nbsp;Monika Czajkowska ,&nbsp;Piotr Moska","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multiproxy analyses were employed to determine the age and origin of the Pleistocene sedimentary succession at the Kadyny site in the northern part of the Elbląg Heights, northern Poland. Lithofacies analysis yielded the identification of four distinct lithofacies complexes (U1-U4). The units of analysis are fluvial (U1, U3 and U4) and lacustrine-lagoonal sedimentary environments (U2). The formation of the site commenced with the Early Vistulian (units U1, U2 and lower part of U3) and the Lower and Middle Pleniglacial (upper part of unit U3 and unit U4). The sequence of depositional environments was controlled by transgressive-regressive cycles functioning in a glacial-interglacial (main cycle) and stadial-interstadial (secondary cycle) rhythm. The textural characteristics of the sediments and the evolution of vegetation were influenced by climatic factors. The warmest climatic conditions prevailed during the deposition of unit U2 (Odderade Interstadial), which was deposited as a result of fluctuations in the water level in a coastal lake or lagoon separated from the open sea by a sandy spit. The analysed sediments are part of thrust-bounded ridges that form the Elbląg Glacitectonic Complex. These were subsequently thrust-stacked and imbricated, which occurred during the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 2 period. This process occurred in two distinct phases: initially from the west, and subsequently from the north. The displacement of the deformed sediments is believed to have taken place over a distance of 10–30 km from the area that is now occupied by the Gulf of Gdańsk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"753 ","pages":"Article 110056"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145618473","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}