The lower reaches of the Nemunas River at the end of the Last (Weichselian) Glacial and beginning of the Holocene

• Autorzy: Bitinas A. , Druzhinina O. , Damušytė A. , Napreenko-Dorokhova T. , Guobytė R. , Mažeika J.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.7306/gq.1337

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The Russian–Lithuanian cross-border area around the Nemunas and Šešupė rivers confluence is a key area for solving palaeogeographic issues important for this region: when the Nemunas Delta started to form, why the essential changes of hydrographic network occurred, and so on. The results of conventional radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dating and pollen analysis in the present dry valley between the Šešupė River and the Įrutis River as well as the results of former studies at the Riadino-5 archaeological site suggest that the essential changes in the Nemunas River hydrographic system occurred before 9.5 ka, most likely in Preboreal time, when the Nemunas River cut through the Vilkiškė Marginal Ridge and started to flow directly to the west from this ridge into one of the former basins of the Baltic Sea – to the Yoldia Sea, or to the Ancylus Lake. A new divide was formed between the Šešupė and Įsrutis rivers, and the basins of the Nemunas and Prieglius rivers (formerly a single hydrographic system) became two independent drainage basins of the Baltic Sea. The present Nemunas Delta formation started after the Litorina Sea transgression when the Nemunas River mouth moved from a Baltic Sea nearshore position to close to the western margin of the Vilkiškės Marginal Ridge. A set of palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Nemunas and Šešupė rivers confluence area for different periods of the very end of the Last (Weichselian) Glacial and the beginning of the Holocene have been constructed.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Baltic Sea; Nemunas Delta; Ancylus Lake; palaeogeography; hydrography; archaeology

• Wydawca: Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Geological Quarterly
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: Vol. 61, No. 1
• Strony: 156--165
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 45 poz., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Bitinas A.

• Klaipéda University, Open Access Centre for Marine Research, H. Manto 84, 92294 Klaipéda, Republic of Lithuania

autor

Druzhinina O.

• Kant Baltic Federal University, A. Nevsky 14, 236038 Kaliningrad; Vyshtynets Museum of Nature and History, Krasnoles'e, 238023 Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian Federation

autor

Damušytė A.

• Geological Survey of Lithuania, Konarskio 35, 2600 Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania

autor

Napreenko-Dorokhova T.

• The Atlantic Branch of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Prospekt Mira 1, 236022 Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian Federation

autor

Guobytė R.

• Geological Survey of Lithuania, Konarskio 35, 2600 Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania

autor

Mažeika J.

• Laboratory of Nuclear Geophysics and Radioecology, State Research Institute Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, 08412 Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania

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