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Brunhes to burials – loess region of Krems, Lower Austria

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This excursion is dedicated to loess–paleosol sequences (LPSs) and the Quaternary research history in the region around Krems an der Donau (Krems a.d. Donau), Austria. The landscape at the eastern exit of the picturesque Wachau valley, carved by the Danube into crystalline basement rocks, is covered by thick loess and has a more than 100-year-long research history. Local Upper Paleolithic findings (e.g., Venus of Willendorf, Fanny of Stratzing, Wachtberg infant burials) are world famous. The outcrops of Paudorf, Göttweig-Furth, and Krems-Schießstätte were type localities of the Quaternary period until the 1970s. Recently, these complex LPSs with discontinuities and polygenetic units were reinvestigated, with a focus on the Middle to Late Pleistocene (Brunhes) record.

Source: DEUQUA Special Publications

DOI: 10.5194/deuquasp-5-41-2024

Authors: Tobias Sprafke, Robert Peticzka, Christine Thiel, Birgit Terhorst

Institutions: University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences, University of Vienna, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, University of Würzburg

Language: English

Topic: Soil and Environmental Studies

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Berner Fachhochschule

OpenAlex ID: W4402379204

FWCI: 0.44

Cites: 60

Cited by: 2

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