Middle Pleniglacial pedogenesis on the northwestern edge of the Carpathian Basin: a multidisciplinary investigation of the Bíňa pedosedimentary section, SW Slovakia
Abstract
The Middle Pleniglacial on the northern hemisphere is characterized by millennial scale, frequent, and high amplitude environmental climatic shifts. In loess-paleosol sequences (LPSs) the transition from the Lower (MIS 4) to the Middle Pleniglacial (MIS 3) was accompanied by significant erosion events, as recorded in various terrestrial archives across Central Europe.
As a result, potentially existing paleosol horizons of the particular period have been widely erased from the (LPSs) and only little is known about pedogenesis in this vast area. This study tries to fill this gap in our knowledge through studying a pedo-sedimentary record from Čata, a site situated in a relatively poorly investigated area on the north-western edge of the Carpathian Basin.