“…Volcanic ashes deposited within loess have the potential to act as reliable marker horizons across loess sequences, particularly when chemically tied to specific eruptions, and precisely dated (Lowe, 2011). Pioneering tephrostratigraphic investigations have been applied to DLPS (Pouclet et al, 1999;Horvath, 2001), however, as the region is favourably located in the dispersal area of several major volcanic fields, including the nearby Carpathian, western and central European eruptive zones, and the more distal, but exceptionally productive, central and eastern Mediterranean volcanic provinces, the full potential of this technique has yet to be exploited (Veres et al, 2013b;Fitzsimmons et al, 2013).…”