TL dating of river terraces with fossil soils in the mediterranean region

Modelling net erosion responses to enviroclimatic changes recorded upon multisecular timescales

“…Many of them were concerned specifically with sediment and erosional processes from European archival data, such as in English catchments (David et al, 1998), German (Zolitschka, 1998), Welsh (Beavis et al, 1999), Irish (Huang and O'Connell, 2000), Spanish (Lasanta et al, 2001), Iceland (Lamoureux, 2002), Belgian (Van Rompay et al, 2002), Greek (Lespez, 2003), Turkish (Wick et al, 2003), Bavarian (Dotterweich et al, 2003), andFrench (Piégay et al, 2004). Although many of these studies form an attractive research field, the information derived from paleogeomorphological evidence [such as sedimentation traps in fluvial terraces (Prózynska-Bordas et al, 1992), in lakes (Slaymaker et al, 2003;Evans and Slaymaker, 2004), or in deglacierizing basins (Orwin and Smart, 2004)] are not continuous in time with less rigorous chronological control (Schulte, 2002;Bradley et al, 2003). Research developed in Italy have been carried out dealing with the influence of climatic modifications on the natural environment and on impacts of extreme events on human activities since A.D. 1000 (Camuffo and Enzi, 1992;Delmonaco et al, 2000) or earlier (Ramrath et al, 2000).…”