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Specifying the external impact on fluvial lowland evolution: the last glacial Tis(z)a catchment in Hungary and Serbia.

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Abstract

External impact on the development of fluvial systems is generally exerted by changes in sea level, climate and tectonic movements. In this study, it is shown that a regional to local differentiation of fluvial response may be caused by semi-direct effects of climate change and tectonic movement; for example, vegetation cover, frozen soil, snow cover and longitudinal gradient. Such
semi-direct effects may be responsible for specific fluvial activity resulting in specific drainage patterns, sedimentation series and erosion–accumulation rates. These conclusions are exemplified by the study of the fluvial archives of the Tis(z)a catchment in the Pannonian Basin in Hungary and Serbia from the middle of the last glacial to the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. Previous investigations in that catchment are supplemented here by new geomorphologicalsedimentological data and OSL-dating. Specific characteristics of this catchment in comparison with other regions are the preponderance of meandering systems during the last glacial and the presence of very large
meanders in given time intervals.
Original languageEnglish
Article number14
Pages (from-to)1-23
Number of pages23
JournalQuaternary
Volume1
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Aug 2018

Bibliographical note

Special Issue: Special External Effects on Fluvial System Evolution

Funding

Acknowledgments: D.V. gratefully acknowledges financial support from the UGent Laboratory of Mineralogy and Petrology, as well as the technical assistance of Ann-Eline Debeer. Field work has been carried out with the help of students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) in the framework of their BSc or Msc thesis. The Laboratory of Sediment Analysis of the VU took care for the grain-size analyses. We thank M. Frechen for providing luminescence measurements from the middle Tisza in 2003, and A. Novothny for communicating recent unpublished OSL-dates from the middle Tisza region. Finally, two anonymous reviewers are thanked for their useful suggestions and also the editor David Bridgland for his editorial and linguistic corrections and modifications. Funding: D.V. gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen). This research received no other external funding.

Funders
UGent Laboratory of Mineralogy and Petrology
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Vlaamse regering

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    1. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
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