Fluvial system response to Middle and Upper Pleistocene climate change in the Meurthe and Moselle valleys (Eastern Paris Basin and Rhenish Massif)

Timing of massive ‘Fleuve Manche’ discharges over the last 350kyr: insights into the European ice-sheet oscillations and the European drainage network from MIS 10 to 2

“…These peaks coincide closely with significant sea-level falls Waelbroeck et al, 2002), as supported by shifts in benthic  18 O to heavy values in core MD03-2692. Because these sea-level changes caused strong fluvial erosion by the French (Cordier et al, 2006;Antoine et al, 2007), British (Van Huissteden et al, 2001), German (Kasse et al, 2003), Dutch (Busschers et al, 2007) and Belgian (Vandenberghe and De Smedt, 1979) rivers which led to an increase of seaward transfer of continentally-derived material, we assume that deep-sedimentation of the Armorican margin records the response of the 'Fleuve Manche' and its tributary rivers to the significant palaeoenvironmental changes. The 'Fleuve Manche' discharges significantly increased from ca.…”

Climatically controlled river terrace staircases: A worldwide Quaternary phenomenon

“…The Somme (Antoine, 1994;Antoine et al, 2000Antoine et al, , 2003Fig. 5) and the Moselle (Cordier et al 2004(Cordier et al , 2006) are examples of systems in which this style of record occurs. It is possible that systems with many more terraces than 100 ky cycles, such as the (now-drowned) River Solent of southern England, have seen terrace formation at both transition episodes (cf., Vandenberghe, 1995, this volume;Bridgland, 2001).…”

Heavy minerals as a tool to reconstruct river activity during the Weichselian glaciation (Toruń Basin, Poland)

“…Such developments took place during the warm-to-cold transitions, when also the streams fed by melting snow came into existence (cf. Church, 1988;Vandenberghe, 1995;Cordier et al, 2006). The large seasonal water supply of rivers flowing from the South (Fig.…”

“…In the case of sedimentary basins, which may have been fed by meltwaters of proglacial streams during the Weichselian glaciation, the mineral composition of the fluvial deposits may have been modified by material from glacial sources. Due to the extent of the Scandinavian ice sheet, climatically controlled sediments -and thus source-related lithological variations -are to be expected in the fluvial deposits of the Weichselian glaciations (Church, 1988;Vandenberghe, 1995;Cordier et al, 2006). This means that the sediment supply to the sedimentary basins was dominated by proglacial rivers during the advance of the ice sheet, whereas it was dominated during ice retreat by the rivers of an arctic (subarctic) nival regime.…”