Articles | Volume 72, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-95-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-95-2023
Research article
 | 
16 May 2023
Research article |  | 16 May 2023

Late Weichselian–Holocene valley development of the Elbe valley near Dresden – linking sedimentation, soil formation and archaeology

Christian Tinapp, Johannes Selzer, Norman Döhlert-Albani, Birgit Fischer, Susann Heinrich, Christoph Herbig, Frauke Kreienbrink, Tobias Lauer, Birgit Schneider, and Harald Stäuble

Related authors

Holocene vegetation dynamics and sedimentation processes in a small depression on a Pleistocene plain – a multi-proxy approach for the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a Neolithic settlement area near Leipzig, Saxony
Christian Tinapp, Maren Gumnior, Susann Heinrich, Christoph Herbig, Saskia Kretschmer, Birgit Schneider, Harald Stäuble, and Astrid Stobbe
E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 74, 79–99, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-74-79-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-74-79-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Alexowsky, W.: Geologische Karte des Freistaates Sachsen, Erläuterungen zu Blatt 4947 Wilsdruff, Dresden, ISBN 3896793985, 2005. 
Birkeland, P. W.: Soils and Geomorphology. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, ISBN 9780195078862, 448 pp., 1999. 
Bork, H.-R.: Die holozäne Relief- und Bodenentwicklung in Lössgebieten, Catena, supplementary volume, 1–93, ISBN 3923381026, 1983. 
Bosq, M., Bertranan, P., Degeai, J.-P., Queffelec, A., and Moine, O.: Geochemical signature of sources, recycling and weathering in the Last Glacial loess from the Rhône Valley (southeast France) and comparison with other European regions, Aeolia Res., 42, 100561, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2019.100561, 2020. 
Bowen, H. J. M.: Environmental Chemistry of the Elements, London, ISBN 978-0121204501, 333 pp., 1979. 
Download
Short summary
Excavations by the Saxonian Archaeological Heritage Office were conducted in the Elbe valley between Meißen and Dresden, preceding the construction of two natural gas pipelines. Two important multicultural, prehistoric sites were discovered and examined. Through a multimethod approach, the structure of sediments and soils in combination with the archaeological finds could be deciphered, providing a glimpse into the late Weichselian and Holocene valley development of the upper Elbe.
Share