Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| Title (Primary) | Sediment cores from river dams as flood archives |
| Author | Junge, F.W.; Jendryschik, K.; Morgenstern, P.; Treutler, H.-C.; Zerling, L. |
| Source Titel | Studia Quaternaria |
| Year | 2004 |
| Department | ANA; SANA |
| Volume | 21 |
| Page From | 187 |
| Page To | 195 |
| Language | englisch |
| Abstract | Studies of sediment cores originating from a dam of the River Mulde near Bitterfeld (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) confirmed that river dams act as excellent archives of flood events. The records were performed by significant changes of the composition and quality of suspended matter and sediment. To combine the investigated sediment core with a reliable time scale, suitable reference data (e.g. radionuclides, geochemical markers) were included into the study. Subsequently, flow data of the Mulde (from 1975 up to now) were used to assign specific floods (>300 m³/s) to the event layers detected in the sediment cores. In addition to this, further time markers were inspected towards a more reliable adjustment of the time scale. In detail we made use of the 137Cs activity maximum (caused by Chernobyl fallout), as well as of the drop in organic pollution (following the collapse of East Germany’s industrial sector 1989/90), and finally of the decrease in the concentration levels of elements and isotopes (a consequence of the reduced activities of mines and metallurgical plants in the River Mulde catchment). |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=4216 |
| Junge, F.W., Jendryschik, K., Morgenstern, P., Treutler, H.-C., Zerling, L. (2004): Sediment cores from river dams as flood archives Studia Quaternaria 21 , 187 - 195 |
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