Abstracts of Symposium 55 and some papers from other related Symposia.

Correlation of the Quaternary Pedostratigraphy from Western to Eastern Europe

Helmut E. STREMME, Bartelsallee 14, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

Pedostratigraphy allows correlations for the Quaternary over very long distances. This paper correlates the paleosols from Normandy to the Ukraine. For ELBEUF (Normandy) a pedostratigraphy was published with four paleosols in loess from the Holstenian to the Eemian. They all represent real interglacial stages as the correlation with marine layers at the coast of the Channel proved. Two Intra-Saalian interglacial paleosols have been found. The Holstenian (ELBEUF IV) is correlated with stage 11 (0-Isot.). In the German Rhine area ARIENDORF correlates with ELBEUF as far as the pedostratigraphy is concerned. The "Parabraunerde" - paleosols I und II from the top belong to the same soil type as the French "sol brun lessive". The paleosol IV at ARIENDORF is of Holstenian age (stage 11). Ar/Ar-age below that soil was dated at 420 ka. - In the Alpine Foreland there are also paleosols of Parabraunerde type. The second paleosol from top in the DONAU-ISAR-HILLS is a pedocomplex with TL-ages of 191 and 210 ka over loess with 233 ka.

The pedostratigraphy in the Czech. Rep. is the result of the investigation of the paleosols and the molluscs fauna. The pedocomplex PK III is of Eemian age. PK IV and V are Intra-Saalian paleosols and PK VI correlates with the Holstenian. Loess and moraine areas have been considered for the pedostratigraphy in Poland. In the Eemian a pedocomplex with lessives was formed. Below the Warta-sediments the Lublin lessive-pedocomplex is found on sediments of the Odra-glaciation. The Lublin paleosols were formed after 265 and before 180 ka (stage 7, 0-Isot.). The pedostratigraphy of the loess in the Ukraine shows pedocomplexes with chernozems in the Eemian and below under a loess-layer pedocomplexes with lessivated forest soils of the Kajdaki-Integlacial, formed in the time between 240 and 170 ka.

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