TY  - JOUR
A1  - Preusser, Frank
A1  - Büschelberger, Matthias
A1  - Kemna, Hans Axel
A1  - Miocic, Johannes
A1  - Mueller, Daniela
A1  - May, Jan-Hendrik
T1  - Exploring possible links between Quaternary aggradation in the Upper Rhine Graben and the glaciation history of northern Switzerland
Y1  - 2021-05-16
VL  - 110
IS  - 5
SP  - 1827
EP  - 1846
JF  - International Journal of Earth Sciences
DO  - 10.1007/s00531-021-02043-7
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
N2  - The Quaternary filling of the Upper Rhine Graben is an excellent archive to reconstruct sediment dynamics in response to climate change, in particular related to past glaciations of the Swiss Alpine Foreland. Here, a sediment sequence recovered by drilling for exploration purposes near Kronau is investigated, using a combination of sedimentological logging, provenance studies (heavy minerals and clast petrography), and luminescence dating. Several phases of coarse sediment aggradation are identified that possibly correlate to Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 12 (478–424 ka), 10 (374–337 ka), 8 (300–243 ka), 6 (191–130 ka) and/or 4 (71–57 ka), and 2 (29–14 ka). Several of these phases have previously also been reported from cores recovered in the major Quaternary depo-centre near Heidelberg. This suggests that the observed coarse aggradation in the Upper Rhine Graben can be assigned to various glaciations in northern Switzerland: Möhlin (MIS 12), Habsburg (MIS 10 or 8), Beringen (MIS 6), an unnamed glacial advance during MIS 4, and Birrfeld (MIS 2). However, due to the limited data available, this hypothesis and the suggested correlations require further confirmation by applying the approach presented here to further cores from the Upper Rhine Graben.
UR  - http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/10838
ER  -