Open AccessDevelopment and chronology of the lower Vistula River valley, North PÖland
Author(s) -
DROZDOWSKI EUGENIUSZ,
BERGLUND Björn E.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
boreas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1502-3885
pISSN - 0300-9483
DOI - 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1976.tb00334.x
Subject(s) - radiocarbon dating , chronology , geology , terrace (agriculture) , holocene , river terraces , floodplain , shore , tephrochronology , geomorphology , erosion , physical geography , archaeology , paleontology , fluvial , oceanography , geography , tephra , volcano , cartography , structural basin
The geomorphology of the river terraces in the lower Vistula River valley of North PÖland is briefly described. They were earlier regarded as Late Wiirmian (terraces IX‐IV) and Holocene (terraces III–I). Litho‐ and biostratigraphical studies of terrace depressions together with radiocarbon datings of their bottom layers indicate that even terrace II was formed during the Allerød Chronozone (11,800 to 11,000 B.P.) or earlier. In addition, radiocarbon datings have shown that the surface sediments of the flood plain were deposited in middle Holocene. These datings are of importance to the chronology of other large river valleys in the southern Baltic region. The interrelationship between erosion/accumulation in the Vistula valley and the shore level of the Baltic is also discussed.