Luminescence dating of fluvial deposits in Vojvodina, N Serbia: First results

Specifying the External Impact on Fluvial Lowland Evolution: The Last Glacial Tisza (Tisa) Catchment in Hungary and Serbia

“…This behaviour, and its relevance as to the accuracy of measurements of natural doses, remains to be understood. Combining these finds with our earlier results [49] indicates that the possibilities of OSL dating using quartz may be limited; future studies may therefore seek to investigate the potential of K-feldspar. Samples for quartz-based SAR-OSL dating were taken at 5.40 m in homogeneous silt-clay, 6.10 m and 6.60 m in cross-laminated sand, and at 6.90 m in a silt-clay bed.…”

“…Luminescence research in the Hungarian fluvial domain has been summarised previously [36]. The first results in the Serbian domain focused on the methodology (involving infrared stimulated luminescence-IRSL-signals from K-feldspar) that was used for dating a sequence of aeolian and fluvial deposits as exposed in the sandpit at Mužlja [49].…”

“…The lateral erosion scar of meandering system 3d enabled the study of an exposure in the sediments of system 3c at Mužlja (location Figure 5). This 4 m deep exposure is located only a few meters from the section that had previously been sampled for luminescence dating [49]. The sediments underlie a point bar of that system.…”

Environmental dynamics and luminescence chronology from the Orlovat loess-palaeosol sequence (Vojvodina, northern Serbia)

“…These palaeochannels are relicts of ancient fluvial activity of, most probably, the palaeo Tisa River (Figs and ). Hydromorphometric parameters of the Petra channel and recent Tisa meanders support this assumption and it is plausible that the Begej or even Tamiš rivers used this riverbed after the Tisa had shifted westwards (Popov et al ., , , ). Thus, the current distribution of the Tamiš loess plateau is a relic of a previously much larger loess belt reduced in extent by intensive fluvial erosion.…”

Stratigraphic revision of the Quaternary material from the vicinity of Belgrade and the Serbian segment of the Tisza valley analysed by V.D. Laskarev

“…The earlier investigations and proposals held that the lower terraces up to 20 m relative height were of postglacial (Holocene) age and that the upper terraces (above 20 m height) were glacial (Pleistocene). Recent investigations have delivered more numerical age data (C 14 and luminescene datings) from Krsti c (1988Krsti c ( , 1990, Raki c et al (2001) and Popov et al (2012). However, without numeric dating, these fluvial units can be only described with relative ages (as either younger or older on the basis of their relative position or the elevation), enabling determination of only the morphostratigraphic correlations.…”