Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-221-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-221-2021
Retrospectives
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17 Dec 2021
Retrospectives |  | 17 Dec 2021

A tribute to Fink (1956): On the correlation of terraces and loesses in Austria

Tobias Sprafke

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This work is an invited retrospective to the seminal paper of Fink (1956). Fink combined field evidence from geology, geomorphology, and soil science to provide a holistic framework of Quaternary stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental evolution in the Austrian Alpine foreland. This paper is an outstanding example of the relevance of interdisciplinary perspectives to understand landscape evolution. With a few exceptions in detail, the findings of Fink remain largely valid until today.