Middle to Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the southeastern Alpine Valeriano Creek succession (northeastern Italy)

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 617-632

  Monegato, Giovanni ^a   Lowick, Sally E ^b   Ravazzi, Cesare ^c   Banino, Roberta ^c   Donegana, Marta ^c   Preusser, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; Fluvial dynamics; Geochronology; Luminescence; Quaternary; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PIEDMONT; PLEISTOCENE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 77957326379     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1321     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Adamiec G, Aitken M. 1998. Dose-rate conversion factors: update. Ancient TL 16: 37-50.
2. Aitken MJ. 1985. Thermoluminescence Dating. Academic Press: London.
3. Amorosi A, Colalongo ML, Fusco F, Pasini G, Fiorini F. 1999. Glacio-eustatic of continental-shallow marine cyclicity from Late Quaternary deposits in the southeastern Po plain, Northern Italy. Quaternary Research 52: 1-13.
4. Avigliano R, Calderoni G, Monegato G, Mozzi P. 2002. The late Pleistocene-Holocene evolution of the Cellina and Meduna alluvial fans (Friuli NE Italy). Memorie Società Geologica Italiana 57: 133-139.
5. e distributions and an assessment of procedures for estimating burial dose. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 2475-2502.
6. de Beaulieu JL, Reille M. 1984. A long upper-Pleistocene pollen record from les Echets near Lyon, France. Boreas 13: 111-132.
7. Beug HJ. 2004. Leitfaden der Pollenbestimmung für Mitteleuropa und angrenzende Gebiete. Pfeil: München.
8. Ceschia M, Micheletti S, Carniel R. 1991. Rainfall over Friuli-Venezia Giulia: high amounts and strong geographical gradients. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 43: 175-180.
9. Cleveringa P, Meijer T, van Leeuwen RJW, de Wolf H, Pouwer R, Lissenberg T, Burger AW. 2000. The Eemian stratotype at Amersfoort in the central Netherlnds: a re-evaluation of old and new data. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 79: 197-216.
10. Desprat S, Sanchez Goni MF, Turon JL, Duprat J, Malaize B, Peypouquet JP. 2006. Climatic variability of Marine Isotope Stage 7: direct land-sea-ice correlation from a multiproxy analysis of a north-western Iberian margin deep-sea core. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 1010-1026.
11. Dickinson WR. 1970. Interpreting detrital modes of graywacke and arkose. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 40: 695-707.
12. Draxler I. 2000. Pollenanalytische Untersuchung der schieferkohleführenden Sedimentfolge von Nieselach bei St. Stefan im unteren Gailtal, Kärnten. In Klimaentwicklung im Riss/Würm Interglazial (Eem) und Frühwürm (Sauerstoffisotopenstufe 6-3) in den Ostalpen. Mitteilungen der Kommission Für Quartärfoschung, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 12: 155-180.
13. Drescher-Schneider R. 2000a. The Riss-Würm interglacial from West to East in the Alps: an overview of the vegetational succession and climatic development. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 79: 233-239.
14. Drescher-Schneider R. 2000b. Klimaentwicklung im Riss/Würm Interglazial (Eem) und Frühwürm in den Ostalpen. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Quartärforschung, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 12: 39-92.
15. Feruglio E. 1929. Nuove ricerche sul Quaternario del Friuli. Giornale di Geologia 4: 1-36.
16. Florineth D, Schlüchter C. 2000. Alpine evidence for atmospheric circulation patterns in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Research 54: 294-308.
17. Fontana A, Mozzi P, Bondesan A. 2008. Alluvial megafans in the Veneto-Friuli Plain: evidence of aggrading and erosive phases during Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Quaternary International 189: 71-90.
18. Frei C, Schär C. 1998. A precipitation climatology of the Alps from high-resolution rain-gauge observations. International Journal of Climatology 18: 873-900.
19. Fuchs M, Straub J, Zöller L. 2005. Residual luminescence signals of recent river flood sediments: a comparison between quartz and feldspar of fine- and coarse-grain sediments. Ancient TL 23: 25-30.
20. Galadini F, Poli ME, Zanferrari A. 2005. Seismogenic sources potentially responsible for earthquakes with M ≥ 6 in the eastern Southern Alps (Thiene-Udine sector, NE Italy). Geophysical Journal International 161: 739-762.
21. Galbraith RF, Green PF. 1990. Estimating the component ages in a finite mixture. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements 21: 197-206.
22. Galbraith RF, Roberts RG, Laslett GM, Yoshida H, Olley JM. 1999. Optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from Jinmium rock shelter, northern Australia. Part I: Experimental design and statistical models. Archaeometry 41: 339-364.
23. Gazzi P. 1966. Le arenarie del flysch sopracretaceo dell'Appennino modenese: correlazioni con il flysch di Monghidoro. Mineralogica Petrografica Acta 12: 69-97.
24. Gianotti F, Forno MG, Ivy-Ochs S, Kubik PW. 2008. New chronological and stratigraphical data on the Morainic Amphitheatre of Ivrea (Piedmont, NW Italy). Quaternary International 190: 123-135.
25. Guiter F, Triganon A, Andrieu-Ponel V, Ponel P, Hébrard J-P, Nicoud G, Beaulieu J-L, de, Brewer S, Guibal F. 2005. First evidence of 'in-situ' Eemian sediments on the high plateau of Evian (Northern Alps, France): implications for the chronology of the Last Glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 35-47.
26. Guiter F, Triganon A, Andrieu-Ponel V, Ponel P, Hébrard J-P, Nicoud G, de Beaulieu J-L. 2006. About the presence of Eemian peats in the Geneva basin and its implications: a reply to comments by Preusser et al. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 648-651.
27. Huntley DJ, Baril MR. 1997. The K content of the K-feldspars being in measured in optical and thermoluminescence dating. Ancient TL 15: 11-13.
28. Ivy-Ochs S, Kerschner H, Reuther A, Preusser F, Heine K, Maisch M, Kubik PW, Schlüchter C. 2008. Chronology of the last glacial cycle in the European Alps. Journal of Quaternary Science 23: 559-573.
29. Jain M, Murray AS, Bøtter-Jensen L. 2004. Optically stimulated luminescence dating: how significant is incomplete light exposure in fluvial environments? Quaternaire 15: 143-157.
30. Jouzel J, Masson-Delmotte V, Cattani O, Dreyfus G, Falourd S, Hoffmann G, Minster B, Nouet J, Barnola JM, Chappellaz J, Fischer H, Gallet C, Johnsen S, Leuenberger M, Loulergue L, Luethi D, Oerter H, Parrenin F, Raisbeck G, Raynaud D, Schilt A, Schwander J, Selmo E, Souchez R, Spahni R, Stauffer B, Steffensen JP, Stenni B, Stocker TF, Tison JL, Werner M, Wolff EW. 2007. Orbital and millennial Antarctic climate variability over the past 800, 000 years. Science 317: 793-796.
31. Klotz S, Müller U, Mosbrugger V, de Beaulieu JL, Reille M. 2004. Eemian and early Würmian climate dynamics: history and pattern of changes in Central Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 211: 107-126.
32. Krüssmann G. 1985. Manual of Cultivated Conifers. Batsford: London.
33. Kuhlemann J, Rohling EJ, Krumei I, Kubik P, Ivy-Ohcs S, Kucera M. 2008. Regional synthesis of Mediterranean atmospheric circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 321: 1338-1340.
34. Magri D, Vendramin GG, Comps B, Dupanloup I, Geburek T, Gömöry D, Latalowa M, Litt T, Paule L, Roure JM, Tantau I, van der Knaap WO, Petit RJ, de Beaulieu JL. 2006. A new scenario for the Quaternary history of European beech populations: palaeobotanical evidence and genetic consequences. New Phytologist 172: 199-221.
35. Marchetti M. 1996. Variazioni idrodinamiche dei corsi d'acqua della Pianura Padana centrale connesse con la deglaciazione. Il Quaternario - Italian Journal of Quaternary Science 9: 465-472.
36. Massari F, Rio D, Serandrei Barbero R, Asioli A, Capraro L, Fornaciari E, Vergerio P. 2004. The environment of Venice area in the past two million years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 20: 273-308.
37. McManus JF, Bond GC, Broecker WS, Johnsen S, Labeyrie L, Higgins S. 1994. High-resolution climate records from the North Atlantic during the last interglacial. Nature 371: 326-329.
38. Mejdahl V. 1987. Internal radioactivity in quartz and feldspar grains. Ancient TL 5: 10-17.
39. Miall AD. 1991. Hierarchies of architectural units in clastic rocks, and their relationship to sedimentation rate. In The Three-Dimensional Facies Architecture of Terrigenous Clastic Sediments, and its Implication for Hydrocarbon Discovery and Recovery, Miall AD, Tyler N (eds). Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists: Tulsa, OK; 6-12.
40. Miall AD. 1996. The Geology of Fluvial Deposits. Springer: Berlin.
41. Michelutti G, Zanolla S, Barbieri S. 2003. Suoli e Paesaggi del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 1: Pianura e colline del pordenonese. ERSA - Friuli Venezia Giulia, Servizio della sperimentazione agraria, Ufficio del suolo. Pozzuolo del Friuli (UD).
42. Monegato G, Ravazzi C, Donegana M, Pini R, Calderoni G, Wick L. 2007. Evidence of a two-fold glacial advance during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Tagliamento end moraine system (eastern Alps). Quaternary Research 68: 284-302.
43. Moore PD, Webb JA, Collinson ME. 1991. Pollen Analysis. Blackwell Scientific: Oxford.
44. Müllenders W, Favero V, Coremans M, Dirickx M. 1996. Analyses polliniques de sondages à Venise. In Pleistocene Palynostratigraphy, Gullentops F (ed.) Aardkundige Mededelingen: Leuven; 87-117.
45. Müller UC. 2000. A Late Pleistocene pollen sequence from the Jammertal, south-western Germany, with particular reference to location and altitude as factors determining Eemian forest composition. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 9: 125-131.
46. Müller UC, Sánchez Goñi MF. 2007. Vegetation dynamics in southern Germany during Marine Isotope Stage 5 (~130 to 70 kyr ago). In The Climate of Past Interglacials, Vol. 7, Sirocko F, Claussen M, Sánchez Goñi MF, Litt T (eds). Elsevier: Amsterdam; 277-287.
47. Müller UC, Pross J, Bibus E. 2003. Vegetation response to rapid climate change in Central Europe during the past 140, 000 yr based on evidence from the Füramoos pollen record. Quaternary Research 59: 235-245.
48. Murray AS, Wintle AG. 2000. Luminescence dating of quartz using an improved single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol. Radiation Measurements 32: 57-73.
49. Murray AS, Svendsen JI, Mangerud J, Astakhov VI. 2007. Testing the accuracy of quartz OSL dating using a known-age Eemian site on the river Sula, northern Russia. Quaternary Geochronology 2: 102-109.
50. Muttoni G, Ravazzi C, Breda M, Pini R, Laj C, Kissel C, Mazaud A, Garzanti E. 2007. Magnetostratigraphy of the Leffe lacustrine succession (Southern Alps, Italy): evidence for an intensification of glacial activity in the Alps at Marine Isotope Stage 22 (0.87 Ma). Quaternary Research 67: 161-173.
51. NACSN (North American Commission On Stratigraphic Nomenclature). 1983. North American Stratigraphic Code. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 67: 841-875.
52. NGICP Members. 2004. High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period. Nature 431: 147-151.
53. Paiero G, Monegato G. 2003. The Pleistocene evolution of Arzino alluvial fan and western part of Tagliamento morainic amphitheatre (Friuli, NE Italy). Il Quaternario - Italian Journal of Quaternary Sciences 16: 185-193.
54. Peschke P, Hannss C, Klotz S. 2000. Zur spätpleistozänen Vegetationsentwicklung der Banquette von Barraux (Grésivaudan, französische Nordalpen). Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart 50: 1-24.
55. 14C dating of old (40-60 ka) samples. Quaternary International 166: 4-14.
56. Pini R, Ravazzi C, Donegana M. 2007. Gli ultimi cinque cicli climatici nella successione sedimentaria della pianura friulana. In Clima e cambiamenti climatici: le attività di ricerca del CNR, Carli B, Cavarretta G, Colacino M, Fuzzi S (eds). Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Rome; 169-172.
57. Pini R, Ravazzi C, Donegana M. 2009a. Pollen stratigraphy, vegetation and climate history of the last 215 ka in the Azzano Decimo core (plain of Friuli, north-eastern Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 1268-1290.
58. Pini R, Ravazzi C, Monegato G. 2009b. La storia vegetazionale e climatica del Pleistocene Superiore nella successione lacustre continua di Fimon (Colli Berici, Vicenza). La variabilità del clima nel Quaternario: la ricerca italiana. AIQUA: Rom; 76-77.
59. Poli ME, Zanferrari A, Monegato G. 2009. Geometria, cinematica e attività pliocenico-quaternaria del sistema di sovrascorrimenti Arba-Ragona (Alpi Meridionali orientali, Italia NE). Rendiconti Online 5: 172-175.
60. Prescott JR, Hutton JT. 1988. Cosmic ray and gamma ray dosimetry for TL and ESR. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements 14: 223-227.
61. Preusser F. 2004. Towards a chronology of the Late Pleistocene in the northern Alpine Foreland. Boreas 33: 195-210.
62. Preusser F, Kasper HU. 2001. Comparison of dose rate determination using high-resolution gamma spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Ancient TL 19: 17-21.
63. Preusser F, Schlüchter C. 2004. Dates from an important early Late Pleistocene ice advance in the Aare Valley, Switzerland. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 97: 245-253.
64. Preusser F, Müller BU, Schlüchter C. 2001. Luminescence dating of sediments from the Luthern Valley, Central Switzerland, and implications for the chronology of the last glacial cycle. Quaternary Research 55: 215-222.
65. Preusser F, Geyh MA, Schlüchter C. 2003. Timing of Late Pleistocene climate change in lowland Switzerland. Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 1435-1445.
66. Preusser F, Schlüchter C, Drescher-Schneider R, Ivy-Ochs S, Kelly M. 2006. Comment on 'First evidence of "in-situ" Eemian sediments on the high plateau of Evian (Northern Alps, France): implications for the chronology of the Last Glaciation' by F Guiter, A Triganon, V Andrieu-Ponel, P Ponel, J-P Hébrard, G Nicoud, J-L de Beaulieu, S Brewer, F Guibal. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 645-647.
67. Punt W, Blackmore S. 1976-2004. The Northwest European Pollen Flora, Vol. I-VIII Elsevier: Amsterdam.
68. Ravazzi C, Pini R, Muttoni G, Breda M, Chiesa S, Confortini F, Egli R, Martinetto E. 2005. The lacustrine deposits of Fornaci di Ranica (late Early Pleistocene, Italian Pre-Alps): stratigraphy, palaeoenvironment and geological evolution. Quaternary International 131: 35-58.
69. Reille M. 1992-1995. Pollen et spores d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord. Laboratoire de Botanique historique et Palynologie: Marseille.
70. Reitner JM. 2005. Quartärgeologie und Landschaftsentwicklung im Raum Kitzbühel-St. Johann i.T.-Hopfgarten (Nordtirol) vom Riss bis in das Würm-Spätglazial (MIS 6-2). PhD thesis, University of Vienna.
71. Reitner J, Draxler I. 2002. Die klimatisch-fazielle Entwicklung vor dem Würm-Maximum im Raum Kitzbühel - St. Johann - Hopfgarten (Nordtirol/Österreich). Terra Nostra 6: 298-304.
72. Reitner J, Draxler I. 2005. Climatic conditions and sedimentary processes during MIS 5 in inneralpine valleys (Tyrol/Eastern Alps/Austria). In The Quaternary Record of Switzerland: INQUA-SEQS Subcommission on European Quaternary Stratigraphy, Bern, Switzerland, 4-9 September 2005, Book of Abstracts; 42-43.
73. Rodnight H, Duller GAT, Wintle AG, Tooth S. 2006. Assessing the reproducibility and accuracy of optical dating of fluvial deposits. Quaternary Geochronology 1: 109-120.
74. Sánchez Goñi MF, Landais A, Fletcher WJ, Naughton F, Desprat S, Duprat J. 2008. Contrasting impacts of Dansgaard-Oeschger events over a western European latitudinal transect modulated by orbital parameters. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 1136-1151.
75. Schokker J, Cleveringa P, Murray AS, Wallinga J, Westerhoff WE. 2005. An OSL dated Middle and Late Quaternary sedimentary record in the Roer Valley Graben (southeastern Netherlands). Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 2243-2264.
76. Sirovich L. 1998. First evidence of an interglacial lake of Eemian age in northeast Italy. Journal of Quaternary Science 13: 65-71.
77. Spötl C, Mangini A. 2006. U/Th age constraints on the absence of ice in the central Inn valley (eastern Alps, Austria) during Marine Isotope Stages 5c to 5a. Quaternary Research 66: 167-175.
78. Spötl C, Mangini A. 2007. Speleothems and paleoglaciers. Earth Planetary Science Letters 254: 323-331.
79. Stockmarr J. 1971. Tablets with spores used in absolute pollen analysis. Pollen et Spores 13: 615-621.
80. Sweeney CA. 2004. A key for the identification of stomata of the native conifers of Scandinavia. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 128: 281-290.
81. Trautmann W. 1953. Zur Unterscheidung fossiler Spaltöffnungen der mitteleuropäischen Coniferen. Flora 140: 523-533.
82. van Geel B, Bohncke SJP, Dee H. 1981. A palaeoecological study of an Upper Late Glacial and Holocene sequence from 'De Borchert', The Netherlands. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 31: 367-448.
83. van Husen D. 1990. The last interglacial-glacial cycle in the Eastern Alps. Quaternary International 3: 115-121.
84. van Husen D. 2004. Quaternary glaciations in Austria. In Quaternary Glaciations: Extent and Chronology. Part I: Europe, Elhers J, Gibbard PL (eds). Elsevier: Amsterdam; 1-13.
85. Venturini C. 2003. Il Friuli nel Quaternario: l'evoluzione del territorio. In Glacies, Muscio G (ed.) Comune di Udine - Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale: Udine.
86. Venturini C, Astori A, Cisotto A. 2004. The Late Quaternary evolution of the Friuli upper plain. In Mapping Geology in Italy, Pasquarè G, Venturini C, Groppelli G (eds). SELCA: Florence; 93-102.
87. Venzo S. 1977. Depositi quaternari e del Neogene superiore nella bassa valle del Piave da Quero al Montello e del Paleopiave nella valle del Soligo (Treviso). Memorie degli Instituti Mineralogia e Geologia dell'Università di Padova 30: 1-64.
88. Waelbroeck C, Labeyrie L, Michel E, Duplessy JC, McManus JF, Lambeck K, Balbon E, Labracherie M. 2002. Sea level and deep water temperature changes derived from benthic foraminifera isotopic records. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 295-305.
89. Watanuki TA, Murray S, Tsukamoto S. 2003. A comparison of OSL ages derived from silt-sized quartz and polymineral grains from Chinese loess. Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 991.
90. Wegmüller S. 1992. Vegetationsgeschichtliche und stratigraphische Untersuchungen an Schieferkohlen des nördlichen Alpenvorandes. Birkhäuser: Basel.
91. Wintle AG. 1973. Anomalous fading of thermoluminescence in mineral samples. Nature 245: 143-144.
92. Wintle AG, Murray AS. 2000. Quartz OSL: effects of thermal treatment and their relevance to laboratory dating procedures. Radiation Measurements 32: 387-400.
93. Wintle AG, Murray AS. 2006. A review of quartz optically stimulated luminescence characteristics and their relevance in single-aliquot regeneration dating protocols. Radiation Measurements 41: 369-391.
94. Zagwijn WH. 1975. Variations in climate as shown by pollen analysis, especially in the Lower Pleistocene of Europe. In Ice Ages: Ancient and Modern, Wright AE, Moseley F (eds). Wiley: Chichester; 137-152.
95. Zanferrari A, Avigliano R, Grandesso P, Monegato G, Paiero G, Poli ME, Stefani C. 2008a. Note illustrative della Carta geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000 - Foglio 065 'Maniago'. APAT-Servizio Geologico d'Italia - Regione A. Friuli Venezia Giulia.
96. Zanferrari A, Avigliano R, Monegato G, Paiero G, Poli ME. 2008b. Note illustrative della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000: Foglio 066 'Udine'. APAT-Servizio Geologico d'Italia - Regione A. Friuli Venezia Giulia.
97. Zanferrari A, Avigliano R, Fontana A, Paiero G. 2008c. Note illustrative della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000: Foglio 086 'San Vito al Tagliamento'. APAT-Servizio Geologico d'Italia - Regione A. Friuli Venezia Giulia.