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Loess in Europe -: its spatial distribution based on a European Loess Map, scale 1:2,500,000

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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 26, Issue 9-10, Pages 1301-1312

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.02.003

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The paper focuses on the concept, mapping and discussion of loess distribution in Western, Central and Eastern Europe at a scale of 1:2,500,000. The research work is based on studies and data compilation primarily carried out in the 1970s and 1980s [Fink, J., Haase, G., Ruske, R., 1977. Bemerkungen zur Losskarte von Europe 1:2,5 Mio. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 2(77), 81-94; Fink, J., 1969 Les progres de l' etude de loess en Europe. Bulletin de l' Association francaise pour l' etude du Quarternaire 3-12. Haase, G., Ruske, R., Fink, J., 1983. Conception, preparation and some results of the Loess Map of Europe on a scale 1:2.5 Million. INQUA Newsletter 1983(1), 7-10] and completed recently by additional material and literature references. Reference is also made to recent GIS-based data processing and visualisation techniques that were utilised for the final version of the European Loess Map. The paper provides an overview of the history of the conceptualisation of the rnap as well as on the loess study in Europe, and than considers the cartographic data oil loess sediment formation and distribution in Europe. The classification of loess and loess-like sediments and their distribution throughout Europe as reproduced in the map are discussed [Haase, G., Lieberoth, I., Ruske, R., 1970. Sedimente und Palaoboden im Lossgurtel. In: Richter, H., Haase, G., Lieberoth, I., Ruske, R. (Eds.), Periglazial-Loss-Palaolithikum om JUngpleistozan der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik; Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 274, 99-212]. The paper illustrates the final state of the loess distribution map of Europe at a scale of 1:2,500,000 and the digital data references oil which it is based. Some applications of the map are suggested.(c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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