Glacial Deposits in North East Europe

Description

Until now no overview of the Quaternary deposits of northeastern Europe has been available. This book fills the gap. It presents the state of research on Quaternary stratigraphy and geology, with emphasis on glacial deposits, discusses the general scientific ideas and gives an overview of the methods of investigation, some of which have rarely been applied elsewhere. It has become apparent that the region covered has many environmental problems, and a proper understanding of the Quaternary deposits is a basic requirement for dealing with them. The same is true for civil engineering. In the formerly glaciated areas almost all construction sites for roads and houses will encounter glacial deposits. This volume provides an authoritative and fascinating overview for anyone planning to venture into this field. In its 53 regional chapters the book covers Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic and eastern Germany. From the text it becomes clear that not all the stratigraphical schemes are yet fully compatible or comprehensible. There can be no doubt, however, that the east was subjected to very extensive ice advances during the earlier Pleistocene. Also, in contrast to western Europe, there was a significant Early Weichselian ice advance, although not as extensive as the last, Late Weichselian event. The book is illustrated by 421 figures and 74 colour plates (mostly photographs). There are 23 tables, a detailed index and a list of over 1000 references, providing a unique collection of northeastern European geoscience literature, much of which has so far escaped the attention of western scientists. The volume, composed of contributions by 60 scientists, completes the trilogy on glacial deposits of northern Europe. Together with its two companion volumes, the Glacial deposits in North-West Europe and the Glacial Deposits in Great Britain and Ireland, it represents an invaluable source of information for the geoscientist, the advanced student or the amateur. Contents Preface • Stefan Kozarski Finland Glacial history of Finland • Matti Saarnisto & Veli-Pekka Salonen Pleistocene stratigraphy of southern Finland • Keijo Nenonen Glacial stratigraphy of northern Finland • Heikki Hirvas Glacial morphology in Finland • Toive Aartolahti The Salpausselka End Moraines in southwestern Finland • Gunnar Glückert Large ice-marginal formations and deglaciation in southern Finland • Heikki Rainio Glaciofluvial deposits in Finland • Raimo Kujansuu, Ilpo Kurkinen & Jouko Niemelä Glaciolacustrine sediments in Finland • Esa Kukkonen, Jouko Niemelä & Lauri Sahala Estonia Glacial history of Estonia • Anto Raukas Properties, origin and stratigraphy of Estonian tills • Anto Raukas Latvia Pleistocene stratigraphy of Latvia • Aleksis Dreimanis & Vitālijs Zelčs Glacigenic deposits in Latvia • Ojārs Āboltiņš & Aleksis Dreimanis Lithuania Glacial history of Lithuania • Algirdas Gaigalas Characteristics and genesis of Lithuanian tills • Algirdas Gaigalas Russia Glacial history of the Russian Plain • Natalia G. Sudakova & Margarita A. Faustova Glacial stratigraphy of the Lower Pleistocene in the Oka-Don Region • Nina l. Glushankova & Natalia G. Sudakova Lithology of the Lower Pleistocene tills in the southern glaciated area of Russia • Nina l. Glushankova, Yuri N. Gribchenko & Natalia G. Sudakova Glacial stratigraphy of the Middle Pleistocene in the central and northern Russian Plain • Natalia G Sudakova, Galina M. Nemtsova, Ludmilla N. Andreicheva & Anatolij l. Lobanov Lithology of the Middle Pleistocene tills in the central and southern Russian Plain • Natalia G. Sudakova, Galina M. Nemtsova, Ludmilla N. Andreicheva, Vyacheslav A. Bolshakov & Nina l. Glushankova Glacial stratigraphy of the Late Pleistocene in the northwestern part of the Russian Plain • Margarita A. Faustova Lithology of glacial deposits of the last Late Pleistocene glaciation • Margarita A. Faustova & Yuri N. Gribchenko Lithological and palaeogeographical regionalisation of the central Russian Plain • Natalia G. Sudakova Deglaciation, the Younger Dryas end moraines and their correlation in Russian Karelia and adjacent areas • Ilpo U. l. Ekman & Vladimir Iljin Ukraine Glacial history of the Ukraine • Piotr F. Gozhik Early Pleistocene glacial deposits in the Middle Dnieper region • Tatiana F. Khrisiophorova Lithological characteristics of the Dniester Glacial Complex deposits in the Carpathian Foredeep • Mykola S. Demediuk & Yuriy N. Demediuk Geological activity and dynamic evolution of the Dnieper Glaciation • Andrei V. Matoshko & Yuriy G. Chugunny Dnieper Glaciation - basal till deposits • Andrei V. Matoshko The Dnieper Glaciation: bedrock dislocations and glacial erosional landscapes • Andrei V. Matoshko Dnieper Glaciation – till deposits of ice-marginal zones • Yuriy G. Chugunny & Andrei V. Matoshko Dnieper Glaciation – meltwater deposits • Andrei V. Matoshko Belarus Glacial history of Belarus • Alexey V. Matveyev The influence o f tectonic a ctivity on glacial deposition and landforms in Belarus • Alexey V. Matveyev & Lilia A. Nechiporenko Poland Pleistocene glacial events in Poland • Iozef Edward Mojski Proximal glaciomarine tills in the northern Lower Vistula region • Eugeniusz Drozdowski Large-clast flow tills in end moraines of southwestern Pomerania, NW Poland • Stefan Kozarski Till facies in the outer end moraine zone of the Wisla Glaciation, northeastern Poland • Leszek Marks Periglacial impact on some features of glacial deposits in central Poland • lan S. Goidzik Till sequences and local moraines in the Holy Cross Mountains area in central Poland • Leszek Lindner Pre-Vistulian glaciotectonic features in southwestern Poland • Krzysztof Brodzikowski Pleistocene glacigenic deposition in a tectonically active, subsiding zone: the Kleszczów Graben, central Poland • Krzysztof Brodzikowski The Czech Republic Glacial history of the Czech Republic • Jaroslav Macoun & František Králík Genesis and petrography of glacial deposits in the Czech Republic • Miloš Růžička Germany The pre-Elsterian Quaternary deposits of central Germany • Lothar Eissmann Elsterian and Saalian deposits in their type area in central Gennany • Lothar Eissmann, Thomas Litt & Stefan Wansa Late Pleistocene deposits in central Gennany • Lothar Eissmann & Thomas Litt Quaternary geology of the Altmark region • Bernhard von Poblozki Saalian and Weichselian tills in the western part of Berlin • Margot Böse A remarkable series of Late-glacial sediments in the hinterland of the Frankfurt end moraine, north of Berlin • Siegfried M. Chrobok & Bemhard Nitz The Pleistocene sequence in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern • Ulrich Müller, Nits Rühberg & Hans-Dieter Krienke Geological Mapping in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern • Nits Rühberg & Fritz Bremer The tills of NE Rügen – lithostratigraphy, gravel composition and relative deposition directions in the southwestern Baltic region • Wolf-Albrecht Panzig Fabric analyses of Pomeranian and Late-glacial tills in Mecklenburg • Klaus Peterss Overview Glacial deposits of North-East Europe: general overview • Jürgen Ehlers, Stefan Kozarski & Philip Gibbard References List of authors Index