Climate events of MIS 5: Implication for the stratigraphy of continental deposits and formation of river terraces in western Eurasiaстатья
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Аннотация:The initial phase of MIS 5e is associated with the first half of the Last Interglacial period. Reconstruction shows a change in plant communities of MIS 5e from broad-leaved Mediterranean species in western Europe to broad-leaved peri-Carpathian species of the East European Plain to broad-leaved-steppe communities of South Urals and dark taiga vegetation of West Siberia. Irrespective of the relative abundance of pollen belonging to temperate-zone communities, all the samples exhibit the same dominant mesophilic species in the forest succession. Alluvial deposits of MIS 4–5 are divided into three members: instratal and substratal alluvium deposited during the interglacial climatic optimum (5e), rhythmic constratal alluvium composed of a climatically contrasting set of substages 5a-d, and a terminal member composed of fine alluvial-deluvialaeolian deposits of MIS 4. Each warming/cooling pair that corresponds to either substages or parts of substages led to the deposition of an alluvial cycle, beginning with “warm” channels and lateral accumulation, which were followed by “cool” aggradation and “cold” floodplain planation.