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Regional chronostratigraphical correlation table for the last 270,000 years Europe north of the Mediterranean v. 2011
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18
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270
Oatm.
-35
Holocene ( Flandrian )
-100
Ice Rafted Debris Mass Accumulation Rate
-50
present
0
Holocene
Subatlantic Subboreal Atlantic Boreal Preboreal
10
20
30
40
50 %
Age (ka)
Holocene
Termination I
1
11.7 14
Holocene ( Flandrian )
Late
8.2
H0/YD
Upper
H1
P l e n i g l a c i a l
N e m u n a s
Middle Weichselian
og
H5
IS12 IS14
Preglacial
96
5c
Chelford
Brrup Herning
standard pollen zones EG E6 E4b E3 E1 LS Kattegat
St. Germain I
? 1. advance
M8
Murava
Tyrrhenian
115
115
pollen zones
109
5d
disturbed
Gulstein
Melisey I
Merkine
e i s t o c e n e
IS24
Mikulinian
IS23
Early
Fana Perpohjola
Mezin Complex
Brown Bank
Bnes
Early Glacial
87
5b
IS22
Early Weichselian
Early Wrmian
118 121
123
Termination II
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5e
Ipswichian
Fjsanger
Eemian
Riss-Wrm interglacial
Last Interglacial
130
Eemian
Blake
P l e i s t o c e n e
T a r e n t i a n
Devensian
Middle
40.1
ge r
3
57
H4
IS 8
Birrfeld glaciation
Wrmian
Upton Warren
lesund/ Sandnes
W e i c h s e l i a n
Pleniglacial
W i s l a
Laschamp
Middle
og
H3
?Silver Pit
Denekamp
?D
30
Grand Bois
V a l d a i a n
29
P o o z i e r i e
Middle Pleniglacial
L a t e
LGM
LGM
LGM
H2
ge r
11.7
0
Holocene
Tardiglaciaire
pollen zones
14.7
Late Plenig.
10
B ti al ja
20 30 40 50 60
Main advance
Grudziadzki
Charbon
Swiecie Gniew
?D
Pile
Early Pleniglacial
?S ilv
?D
4
71
H6 IS19 IS20
og
? 2. advance
Lower
ge r
Pi
IS16
55
er
Goulotte
Schalkholz
Torun
Krutitsa soil
82
5a
IS21
Brimpton
Torvastad / Trend
74
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w ko
Ribains Linexert
Eemian
re War nt th he e-2 1
W ar
L a t e S a a l i a n
W o l s t o n i a n
S a a l i a n
Complex
I o n i a n
M i d d l e P l e i s t o c e n e
Beringen Glaciation
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Wartanian Odranian
Late
Rehburg
Ze m
Hondsrug Amersfoort
M D Kur os ni c ep sk s ovi oi an er l
130
Zeifen
M7 M6 M4b M3 M1 LS
he
re nt he -
re nt
ai tj
nk So ai zs h
th
(?)
Hagenholz Glaciation
disturbed
170 180
185
pollen zones
191
190
Meikirch interstadial complex
Rissian
M i d d l e S a a l i a n
7
GRIP -40
Termination III
Le Bouchet 2
Cherepet
Lublinian
potentially disturbed
18
Le Bouchet 3
200 210
Romny soil
Middle
ort
att e
-35
Oatm.
rsw
243
Ma
?S
ang
Le Bouchet 1
Krznanian
Hagenholz Glaciation
Zhizdra
250
Orchik loess
e1
CR0
8
Oceans North Atlantic and Greenland Northwest Atlantic Europe
K.M. Cohen 1& P.L. Gibbard 2
Sa
al
260
(?)
260 270
Global divisions
Siberia
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1 Department
of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 2 Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group, Cambridge Quaternary Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Stratigraphy and Chronology Commission (SACCOM).
International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS).
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Late Pleistocene: Shackleton et al., 2000; 2004 Middle Pleistocene Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005 MIS stage boundary ages, MIS substage midpoints: cf. Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005
Heinrich events: McManus et al., 1994 Greenland Ice cores: Anderson et al., 2006; Svenson et al., 2006; NGRIP dating group, 2008. NGRIP members, 2004 (further tuned) GRIP members, 1993 (further tuned) Dansgaard et al., 1993 (further tuned)
Meriadzek platform: Toucanne et al. 2009 Sea level rise: Waelbroeck et al. 2002
Late Pleistocene glaciations: Scandinavia: Mangerud, 2004 North Sea: Hijma et al., 2011 Alps: Preusser et al., 2011 Middle Pleistocene glaciations: North Sea, Netherlands: Busschers et al., 2008 N Germany: Ehlers (2004) Swiss Alps (N): Preusser et al., 2011
France: Beaulieu, 1984; 1992 Pons et al., 1992 Beaulieu & Reille, 1992 Reille & Beaulieu, 1995
Poland: Marks 2011 Poland, Lithuania, Belarus Ber, 2006 Russia: Molodkov & Bolikhovskaya 2010