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Fluvial and aeolian landscape evolution in Hungary – results of the last 20 years research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

Gy. Gábris ,
E. Horváth ,
Á. Novothny  and
Zs. Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger
Gy. Gábris*
Affiliation:
Eötvös University of Budapest, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Physical Geography, 1117 Budapest Pázmány sétány 1/C, Hungary
E. Horváth
Affiliation:
Eötvös University of Budapest, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Physical Geography, 1117 Budapest Pázmány sétány 1/C, Hungary
Á. Novothny
Affiliation:
Eötvös University of Budapest, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Physical Geography, 1117 Budapest Pázmány sétány 1/C, Hungary
Zs. Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger
Affiliation:
Eötvös University of Budapest, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Physical Geography, 1117 Budapest Pázmány sétány 1/C, Hungary
*
Email: gabris@ludens.elte.hu.
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Present study provides a review of the latest results on fluvial and aeolian landscape evolution in Hungary achieved by our team during the last 20 years.

– The Hungarian river terrace system and its chronology was described with special emphasise on the novel threshold concept. A revised terrace system was created by the compilation of novel terrace chronology and MIS data. Evolution of river terraces was not only governed by climatic factors but tectonic ones too. Incision rate of the Danube, and uplift rate of the Transdanubian Range (TR) was around 0.1-0.3 mm/a in the marginal zones of the TR (mostly based on the published U-series data) and was above 1 mm/a in its axial zone (based on 3He exposure age dating of strath terraces).

– According to a detailed geomorphological investigation of the different channel-planform morphologies in the Middle Tisza region and Sajó-Hernád alluvial fan, six phases of river pattern change and four incision periods were detected during the last 20,000 years.

– Wind polished rock surfaces dated by in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be suggest that deflation was active in Hungary as early as 1.5 Ma ago. According to these exposure age data, Pleistocene denudation rate of the study area (Balaton Highland) was 40-80 m/Ma.

– In sand covered areas the alternations of wind-blown layers and buried fossil soils provide information about climate and environment changes. In this study, periods of sand movement were mostly determined by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating methods and five aeolian sand accumulation periods were recognised during the last 25 000 years.

– A new loess stratigraphical view was elaborated using the most recent dating methods (luminescence, AAR). The lower part of Mende Upper (MF1-2) pedokomplex is suggested to represent the last interglacial period (MIS 5e). During the last interglacial/glacial period (MIS 5 - MIS 2) several soil-forming periods existed but the preservation of these paleosoils is variable depending on their paleogeomorphological position.

Keywords

river terrace formationriver channel-planform morphologyuplift rateexposure agesand-moving periodsloess stratigraphyQuaternaryHungary
Type
Research Article
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Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 91 , Issue 1-2 , September 2012 , pp. 111 - 128
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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2012

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