Late Quaternary Palaeoclimate Reconstruction Based on Clay Minerals Assemblage from Preluca Tiganului (Gutai Mountains, Romania)

Authors

Lucreția Ghergari, Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Mineralogy
Bogdan P. Onac, Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Mineralogy

Abstract

Several core samples were extracted from the overgrown crater lake of Preluca Tiganului, NW Romania. The overall lithology and the mineral assemblages (mostly clay) described from different levels within these cores, suggest three main periods having humid or dry conditions. Based on these findings, palaeoclimate conditions can be reconstructed the over the time period spanning 15,000 to 13,500 cal. years BP.

Recommended Citation

Ghergari, Lucreția and Onac, Bogdan P. (2001) Late Quaternary Palaeoclimate Reconstruction Based on Clay Minerals Assemblage from Preluca Tiganului (Gutai Mountains, Romania), Studia UBB Geologia 46 (1): 15-28
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1937-8602.46.1.2
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geologia/vol46/iss1/art2