Physical geography and geomorphology, 47, 3–4 (125–126), 28–34

https://doi.org/10.17721/phgg.2024.3-4.03

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The vegetation and soils reconstruction of the Middle Sula River basin at the beginning of the Last Interglacial and the Holocene 

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Illia Kravchuk, Natalia Gerasimenko

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 64/13, Volodymyrska St., Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine

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Abstract

The planet's natural environment is under significant anthropogenic impact. At the same time, the long-term studies have established rhythms of the development of the biosphere. Landscapes changes are a marker of changes in the biosphere. In turn, changes in vegetation and the soil cover are a marker in the landscape changing (because it's easier to trace their in sediments and chronos). It is believed that changes in these components of palaeolandscapes at the beginning of the two latest interglacials are comparable. We can give a forecast based on the Lyell’s principle of Uniformitarianism about how the climate will be change throughout the entire Holocene and compare this forecast with the trends that we are fixing now. It is extremely necessary to establish benchmarks for this complex objective which ones can connect both interglacials. Strictly speaking,  it is the objective of this work. The article presents the results of the study, which consists in finding analogues of phases at the beginning of  the Last Interglacial period and the Holocene through the reconstruction of plant communities and soils.

 

Keywords

Loess-palaeosol sequence, palynology, palaeopedology, reconstruction, palaeoclimate, interglacial, stratigraphic correlation, palaeontology,  geoarchaeology

 

Received: 18 June 2023 / Accepted: 27 June 2024 / Published online: 17 July 2024