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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Yunus Baykal

I am a PhD student at Uppsala University, Sweden working on aeolian dust deposits. In my research I focus on the question of how climate affects atmospheric dustiness and vice versa by studying the age and source of Late Quaternary loess deposits in Europe. In this context, I apply different dating methods and source proxies with a focus on detrital zircon geochronology. I also use sedimentological proxies such as grain size, environmental magnetic and geochemical analyses to understand the climate and environmental history preserved in loess records.

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return – palaeoclimatological implications of provenance studies of Southeast European loess deposits

and November 5, 2021
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return – palaeoclimatological implications of provenance studies of Southeast European loess deposits
The loess cliffs of Vlasca, southern Romania (Photo credit: Stephan Pötter).

Previous blog posts have highlighted the importance of loess as an indicator of climate and environmental changes in the past. These posts showed the relevance of loess deposits as  archives of Pleistocene climates and environments, the importance of using novel approaches in mapping these and other Quaternary-related sediments,  the aspects of dating loess deposits, as well as the peculiarities o ...[Read More]