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Radiocarbon-Dated Paleoenvironmental Changes on a Lake and Peat Sediment Sequence from the Central Great Hungarian Plain (Central Europe) During the Last 25,000 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Pál Sümegi ,
Mihály Molnár ,
Gusztáv Jakab ,
Gergo Persaits ,
Péter Majkut ,
Dávid G Páll ,
Sándor Gulyás ,
A J Timothy Jull  and
Tünde Törcsik
Pál Sümegi*
Affiliation:
University of Szeged, Department of Geology and Paleontology, P.O. Box 658, 6701 Szeged, Hungary. Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1014 Budapest úri u. 49, Hungary.
Mihály Molnár
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Environmental Studies, Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4025 Debrecen Bem tér 18/C, Hungary.
Gusztáv Jakab
Affiliation:
Tessedik Sámuel College 5540 Szarvas Szabadság str. 2, Hungary.
Gergo Persaits
Affiliation:
University of Szeged, Department of Geology and Paleontology, P.O. Box 658, 6701 Szeged, Hungary.
Péter Majkut
Affiliation:
University of Szeged, Department of Geology and Paleontology, P.O. Box 658, 6701 Szeged, Hungary.
Dávid G Páll
Affiliation:
University of Szeged, Department of Geology and Paleontology, P.O. Box 658, 6701 Szeged, Hungary.
Sándor Gulyás
Affiliation:
University of Szeged, Department of Geology and Paleontology, P.O. Box 658, 6701 Szeged, Hungary.
A J Timothy Jull
Affiliation:
NSF Arizona AMS Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1118 East Fourth St., Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Tünde Törcsik
Affiliation:
University of Szeged, Department of Geology and Paleontology, P.O. Box 658, 6701 Szeged, Hungary.
*
Corresponding author. Email: sumegi@geo.u-szeged.hu.
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One of Hungary's geological and environmental treasures is nestled in the heart of the Great Hungarian Plain. The catchment basin of Lake Kolon was subjected to detailed environmental historical studies starting in 2005. Undisturbed cores taken along transects of the basin were subjected to detailed sedimentological, paleoecological, and geochemical studies. To establish a reliable timeframe of the lacustrine and marshland sedimentary sequence identified, 22 samples were analyzed by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) in the radiocarbon laboratories of Poznań and Tucson. With the new results in hand, we had the opportunity to elucidate the geological evolution of the area for the past 25,000 yr. This sequence is highly beneficial, as it is probably the most well-dated profile of the Quaternary from the area studied. The new absolute dates enabled the comparison of local geological evolution of the studied area with those of global climatic changes. As seen from our findings, the geological evolution of the catchment basin was congruent with major climatic events during the Pleistocene and the entire Holocene. However, a very peculiar trajectory was identified for the terminal part of the Pleistocene and the opening of the Holocene regarding the evolution of the landscape, the vegetation, and the fauna of this part of the Great Hungarian Plain.

Type
Soils and Sediments
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , 2011 , pp. 85 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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