- Pleistozän (1) (remove) - Loess-like and palaeosol sediments
from Lanzarote (Canary Islands/Spain) —Indicators of
palaeoenvironmental change during the Late Quaternary (2009) -
On Lanzarote (Canary Islands) Quaternary Saharan dust and
weathered local volcanic material were trapped in Miocence to
Pliocene valleys dammed by younger volcanic edifices. These
sediments show sequences of alternating reddish/clayey and
loess-like yellowish/silty material. In order to investigate if
reddish/clayey layers contain material derived from local
pedogenesis and if so, which pedogenetic processes were active,
we performed sedimentological, micromorphological and
environmental magnetic analyses. The analyses demonstrate that
these layers contain material derived from local soils. These
soils were characterised by clay formation, rubefication and the
formation of superparamagnetic particles during periods of
enhanced soil moisture. Thus, they can serve as natural archives
in order to reconstruct the terrestrial palaeoclimat