Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.4000/QUATERNAIRE.14352
C. Bochaton, David Cochard, M. Gala, J. Chalifour, A. Lenoble
{"title":"Initial observations of the subfossil fauna from Tintamarre Island (Anguilla bank, Lesser Antilles)","authors":"C. Bochaton, David Cochard, M. Gala, J. Chalifour, A. Lenoble","doi":"10.4000/QUATERNAIRE.14352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/QUATERNAIRE.14352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49645,"journal":{"name":"Quaternaire","volume":"1 1","pages":"327-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43458163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.14273
P. Antoine, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Sylvie Coutard, N. Limondin‑Lozouet
{"title":"La séquence de Grâce‑Autoroute (Somme, France) : une référence pour l’enregistrement des variations climatiques Quaternaires depuis 1 Ma à l’Ouest de l’Europe","authors":"P. Antoine, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Sylvie Coutard, N. Limondin‑Lozouet","doi":"10.4000/quaternaire.14273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.14273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49645,"journal":{"name":"Quaternaire","volume":"1 1","pages":"205-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46918240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.14287
Driss Chahid, L. Boudad, A. Lenoble, M. Lamothe, A. Chakroun, A. Oujaa, R. Nespoulet, Mohammed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui
{"title":"New lithostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic data for the fossil human skull-bearing eolianite of Rabat-Kebibat (Morocco)","authors":"Driss Chahid, L. Boudad, A. Lenoble, M. Lamothe, A. Chakroun, A. Oujaa, R. Nespoulet, Mohammed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui","doi":"10.4000/quaternaire.14287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.14287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49645,"journal":{"name":"Quaternaire","volume":"1 1","pages":"249-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47750573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.14267
Iale Serin-Tuikalepa, Pierre Voinchet, Hélène Tissoux, Yoann Chantreau, Jean-Jacques Bahain
{"title":"Chronologie de la mise en place du bassin versant de la Sarthe moyenne par datation ESR sur quartz optiquement blanchis via l’approche multi-centres","authors":"Iale Serin-Tuikalepa, Pierre Voinchet, Hélène Tissoux, Yoann Chantreau, Jean-Jacques Bahain","doi":"10.4000/quaternaire.14267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.14267","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49645,"journal":{"name":"Quaternaire","volume":"1 1","pages":"187-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70526882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.14217
D. Faust, Maximilian Pachtmann, Georg Mettig, P. Seidel, Moncef Bouaziz, J. Espejo, F. D. Olmo, Christopher-Bastian Roettig, S. Kreutzer, U. Hambach, Sascha Meszner
{"title":"Sandy soils in silty loess: the loess system of Matmata (Tunisia)","authors":"D. Faust, Maximilian Pachtmann, Georg Mettig, P. Seidel, Moncef Bouaziz, J. Espejo, F. D. Olmo, Christopher-Bastian Roettig, S. Kreutzer, U. Hambach, Sascha Meszner","doi":"10.4000/quaternaire.14217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.14217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49645,"journal":{"name":"Quaternaire","volume":"1 1","pages":"175-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43831640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.13688
C. Aratman, Mehmet Özkul, R. Swennen, C. Hollis, M. Erthal, H. Claes, Zahra Mohammadi
This research forms the basis for the applicability of the Dunham (1962) classification of carbonated rock lithofacies to the analysis of the giant Ballik travertine architecture, while reconstructing lateral and vertical environmental changes. This study provides an analogue for spring-related deposits encountered offshore Brazil and Angola by linking macroscopically travertine lithofacies distribution to depositional environments. The analysis is based on rock-building constituents such as gastropods, charophytes, intraclasts, phytoclasts, coated grains, dendrites etc., forming micro-sedimentary fabrics with different structures such as packstone, grainstone, wackestone and boundstone, these latter closely associated with crust of dendrites and phytoherm of reeds and bryophytes. Our findings indicate that the Ballik travertine area consists of a “Lower” and an “Upper Domain” reflecting different depositional environments. More specifically, the “Lower Domain” consists from west to east of a laterally complex amalgamation of extended pool, marsh pool and flood plain environments that formed from a mixture of spring and ground waters. The extended pond environment characterised by a boundstone facies of stromatolites in the west evolves eastward into a marsh pool and flood plain. This is because CO2 degassing and water temperature decreased as the water depth of the Lower Domain reduced towards the east. The marsh pool environment includes packstone to grainstone lithofacies and abundant wackestone lithofacies made of phytoclasts, whose crusts exhibit pustular fabrics. Moreover, the flood plains along with the marsh pool consist dominantly of packstone to grainstone lithofacies with many gastropods and intraclasts, interfingered with wackestone lithofacies made of phytoclasts. Irregular clotted fabrics, along with coated grains with radial fibres, high lime mud content with bioturbation are also present. The “Upper Domain” displays a laterally less heterogeneous palaeoenvironmental distribution with flooded slope and flood plain deposits. The eastern part of the “Upper Domain” is characterized by a systematic alternation of these environments, with intercalations of wackstone lithofacies made of phytoclasts, packstone to grainstone lithofacies made of intraclasts and lime muds as well as coated grains. The flood plain has coated grains having peloidal nuclei and coatings of sparry laminations and clotted fabric of peloids representing intraclasts, whereas, the flooded slope possesses coated grains with coatings of dendrites and nuclei of peloids, boundstone of stromatolites which have flat‑laminated and columnar-laminated fabrics indicating a laminar discharge away from the spring(s). Alluvial fan and palustrine deposits with abundant bryophytes and reeds frequently interfinger with marsh pool environment in the “Lower Domain”, and with the flood plain and flooded slope environments in the “Upper Domain”. The results illustrate well how environme
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.13792
V. Drăgușin, I. Mirea, V. Ersek, L. Tîrlă
When calcite precipitates in caves, its carbon stable isotope signature can be modified by the CO2 outgassing gradient between drip water and cave atmosphere. This effect is modulated by the water residence time in the cave, from its emergence in the cave until the deposition of calcite. Moreover, CO2 solubility, calcite precipitation rate, and isotopic fractionation are controlled by temperature. Here, we present up to date results of an ongoing monitoring study at Ascunsă Cave (Romania), exploring the relationship between farmed calcite δ13C, drip rate, and CO2 outgassing. In addition to measuring CO2 concentration in cave air, we also measured the CO2 concentration in the headspace of a water-air equilibrator that collects drip water without exposing it to cave atmosphere, preventing outgassing. δ13C from calcite farmed at two neighboring stalagmites with different drip rates was also measured. Although caves have generally stable temperatures, we show here that temperature inside Ascunsă and Isverna caves has risen by more than 2°C over the course of a year, bearing important implications for stable isotopic fractionation equations and CO2 dynamics. Our results show that δ13C of farmed calcite has a strong relationship with drip rate at the slow dripping site, but no correlation at the faster dripping site. These two sites are also different when δ13C is compared to the outgassing gradient. At the slower drip site, δ13C and the outgassing gradient are directly correlated, whereas at the faster drip site their correlation is inverse. Our study brings new light onto speleothem δ13C behavior in general, and at Ascunsă Cave in particular, which is crucial for understanding the paleoclimate information captured by speleothems from this cave or elsewhere.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.13778
J. Dabkowski, N. Limondin‑Lozouet, Marie-Claude Jolly-Saad
Since the mid-19th century, the large tufa deposit of Resson (Aube, northern France) was of great interest to geologists and palaeontologists because of its rich content in macroflora and large mammal fossils, while some archaeological artefacts were also described. A geomorphological and sedimentological study in the mid-20th century assigned this deposit to the Last Interglacial. Despite its great potential for palaeoenvironmental investigation, the Resson tufa had not been studied since. We have recently retrieved the collection of plant imprints from Resson allowing new taxa determination, prospected the tufa location and made new malacological analyses. This paper thus combines new records and reassessed historical data to confirm the assignment of Resson tufa to the Eemian and discuss a first reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the Seine basin for this interglacial period, demonstrating the potential of this tufa deposit as a reference site for the Last Interglacial in northern France.
{"title":"Palaeoenvironmental and biostratigraphic data from the Resson tufa (Aube, France): reassessment of an eemian record","authors":"J. Dabkowski, N. Limondin‑Lozouet, Marie-Claude Jolly-Saad","doi":"10.4000/quaternaire.13778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.13778","url":null,"abstract":"Since the mid-19th century, the large tufa deposit of Resson (Aube, northern France) was of great interest to geologists and palaeontologists because of its rich content in macroflora and large mammal fossils, while some archaeological artefacts were also described. A geomorphological and sedimentological study in the mid-20th century assigned this deposit to the Last Interglacial. Despite its great potential for palaeoenvironmental investigation, the Resson tufa had not been studied since. We have recently retrieved the collection of plant imprints from Resson allowing new taxa determination, prospected the tufa location and made new malacological analyses. This paper thus combines new records and reassessed historical data to confirm the assignment of Resson tufa to the Eemian and discuss a first reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the Seine basin for this interglacial period, demonstrating the potential of this tufa deposit as a reference site for the Last Interglacial in northern France.","PeriodicalId":49645,"journal":{"name":"Quaternaire","volume":"1 1","pages":"133-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48361263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.13677
C. Prud’homme, É. Verrecchia
This special issue follows the 20th INQUA congress held in Dublin in July 2019, where we organized with the help of Julie Dabkowski a session on “Multiproxy studies on continental carbonates : palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments”. Continental carbonates have been extensively studied during the last few decades as supports for multidisciplinary palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental researches. Most efforts have been concentrated on speleothems, but investigations on tufa, travertine, lacust...
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