Environmental factors controlling the Last Glacial multi-phase development of the Moravian Sahara dune field, Lower Moravian Basin, Central Europe

The Dunes of Belvedere–San Marco of Aquileia: Integrating High-Resolution Digital Terrain Models and Multispectral Images with Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey to Map the Largest System of Continental Dunes of Northern Italy

“…Several examples of these landforms have been d umented along former channel belts of the Rhine River [75,76] and the Scheldt River [1 In most of these cases, the aeolian deposits accumulated over abandoned fluvial terrac a few meters (i.e., 2-20 m) above the river channel active during their formation and fro where the sands have been deflated. [17], the Transdanubian area [14], Deliblato [1 Walachia [77] and Este [18]. The basemap is hillshade, derived from SRTM data [8].…”

“…Interesting examples of large dune fields are present in the area of Nyírs in Eastern Hungary [15], and the Deliblato area, in the Vojvodina Plain of Serbia [16]. Bo these fields have a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene age, and the ridges display a typi [17], the Transdanubian area [14], Deliblato [16], Walachia [77] and Este [18]. The basemap is hillshade, derived from SRTM data [8].…”

“…A recent study has characterized a complex system of transverse dunes called the Moravian Sahara dune field, in the Czech Republic, that was formed between the LGM and the Late Glacial [17]. In this case, the sediment was supplied by a braided paleochannel system of the Morava River and the sand ridges accumulated over a fluvial terrace 20 m above the river channel; the direction of the winds was N-S for the older dunes and W-E for the youngest ones.…”

“…The so-called "Northern European Sand Belt" characterizes large portions between Great Britain and Russia, where Pleistocene aeolian dunes are well documented in the lowlands, as in the Rhine-Meuse Delta [11][12][13]. In Central Europe, abundant aeolian landforms and deposits are found in Hungary, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Romania [14][15][16][17].…”

“…Figure 17. Comparison with wind directions (orange arrows) of the aeolian landforms between Central Europe and the northern Adriatic in Moravia[17], the Transdanubian area[14], Deliblato[16], Walachia[77] and Este[18]. The basemap is hillshade, derived from SRTM data[8].…”