Late Quaternary Terrestrial Processes, Sediments and History: from Glacial to Postglacial Environments
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INQUA TERPRO COMMISSION PERIBALTIC WORKING GROUP UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF DAUGAVPILS LATVIAN ASSOCIATION FOR QUATERNARY RESEARCH LATE QUATERNARY TERRESTRIAL PROCESSES, SEDIMENTS AND HISTORY: FROM GLACIAL TO POSTGLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS EASTERN AND CENTRAL LATVIA AUGUST 17-22, 2014 EXCURSION GUIDE AND ABSTRACTS INQUA TEPRO COMMISSION PERIBALTIC WORKING GROUP UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF DAUGAVPILS LATVIAN ASSOCIATION FOR QUATERNARY RESEARCH LATE QUATERNARY TERRESTRIAL PROCESSES, SEDIMENTS AND HISTORY: FROM GLACIAL TO POSTGLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS EASTERN AND CENTRAL LATVIA AUGUST 16-22, 2014 EXCURSION GUIDE AND ABSTRACTS UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA RĪGA 2014 Organized by: University of Latvia Daugavpils University Latvian Association for Quaternary Research INQUA Peribaltic Working Group (INQUA TERPRO Commission) Organizing committee: Māris Nartišs (Chair, University of Latvia) Māris Krievāns (Secretary, University of Latvia) Aivars Markots (University of Latvia) Juris Soms (Daugavpils University) Evija Tērauda (University of Latvia) Vitālijs Zelčs (University of Latvia) Contributors: Ivars Celiņš, Edgars Greiškalns, Ieva Grudzinska, Edyta Kalińska-Nartiša, Laimdota Kalniņa, Jānis Karušs, Māris Krievāns, Kristaps Lamsters, Aivars Markots, Māris Nartišs, Agnis Rečs, Normunds Stivriņš, Juris Soms, Ivars Strautnieks, Santa Strode, Sandra Zeimule, Vitālijs Zelčs Editors: Vitālijs Zelčs and Māris Nartišs The English texts of the field guide were revised by Valdis Bērziņš Recommended reference for this publication: Zelčs, V. and Nartišs, M. (eds.) 2014. Late Quaternary terrestrial processes, sediments and history: from glacial to postglacial environments. Excursion guide and abstracts of the INQUA Peribaltic Working Group Meeting and field excursion in Eastern and Central Latvia, August 17-22, 2014. University of Latvia, Rīga, 2014, 150 pages. Sponsored by: University of Latvia Layout: Vitālijs Zelčs, Māris Nartišs and Māris Krievāns ISBN 078-9934-517-60-0 © University of Latvia, 2014 This volume is available from: Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences University of Latvia Rainis Blvd. 19 Rīga, LV1586 Latvia Late Quaternary Terrestrial Processes, Sediments and History: from Glacial to Postglacial Environments CONTENTS Preface………………………………………………………………………………... 6 Schedule and excursion itinerary…………………………………………………….. 7 Outlines of the Quaternary geology of Latvia / Vitālijs Zelčs and Māris Nartišs/…… 9 GUIDE FOR FIELD TRIP 16 STOP 1: Lower Gauja spillway valley at Sigulda /Māris Krievāns, Vitālijs Zelčs and Māris Nartišs/………………....................................................................................... 17 STOP 2: Late-glacial and postglacial environmental changes, Lake Āraiši, Vidzeme Upland /Normunds Stivriņš/………………………………………………………….. 21 STOP 3: Late-glacial and early postglacial environmental processes and the history of the River Triečupīte valley and surroundings, in the foreland of the Vidzeme Upland /Māris Krievāns and Laimdota Kalniņa/…………………............................. 25 STOP 4: Internal structure and genesis of the sediments underlying Terrace III of the River Gauja at Dukuļi farmhouse and Valmiera town /Māris Krievāns and Agnis Rečs/….......................................................................................................................... 32 STOP 5: Veselava end moraine, north-western Vidzeme Upland /Vitālijs Zelčs, Māris Krievāns and Ivars Strautnieks/…................................................................... 37 STOP 6: Morphology, internal structure and texture of inland dunes at Smilškalni site, Middle Gauja Lowland /Ivars Celiņš, Jānis Karušs, Edyta Kalińska-Nartiša, Māris Nartišs/……………………………………………........................................... 42 STOP 7: Madona-Trepe ice-marginal ridge at Smeceres sils, East-Latvian Lowland /Vitālijs Zelčs, Māris Krievāns and Māris Nartišs/…………...................................... 47 STOP 8: Morphology and arrangement of glaciokarst kettles at Vietalva village /Jānis Karušs, Māris Krievāns and Agnis Rečs/.…………………….......................... 52 STOP 9: Upper Daugava spillway valley and associated gully network at Vasargelišķi /Juris Soms and Vitālijs Zelčs/…………………………........................ 57 STOP 10: Kame terrace in the Upper Daugava depression at Rakuti, near Krāslava /Vitālijs Zelčs, Juris Soms and Edgars Greiškalns/………………….......................... 61 STOP 11: Recessional moraine ridge at Veresovka, Rāzna glacial depression /Vitālijs Zelčs, Juris Soms, Aivars Markots and Ivars Strautnieks/............................. 67 STOP 12: Late glacial and Holocene development of Lake Rāzna as recorded by biostratigraphy /Sandra Zeimule, Laimdota Kalniņa and Ieva Grudzinska/................ 72 STOP 13: Inland dune field near Daugavpils, East-Latvia Lowland /Edyta Kalińska- Nartiša, Māris Nartišs, Juris Soms and Santa Strode/................................................ 77 STOP 14: Morphology and internal structure of Lāči drumlin at Tērvete village, Zemgale Drumlin Field /Kristaps Lamsters and Vitālijs Zelčs/……............................ 81 STOP 15: Morphology and internal structure of a ribbed moraine and drumlin remnant in the environs of Baldone, Central Latvian Lowland /Kristaps Lamsters and Vitālijs Zelčs/……………….................................................................................. 86 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS AND POSTERS 90 Paper and poster session programme………………………………………………… 91 Map of ice-marginal formations of European Russia /Valery Astakhov, Valentina Shkatova, Andrei Zastrozhnov and Margarita Chuyko/……………………………... 94 Palaeoenvironmental changes and stratigraphy of Quaternary deposits of Lithuania /Valentinas Baltrūnas, Bronislavas Karmaza, Valentas Katinas, Vaida Šeirienė and Rimante Zinkutė/………………………………………………………………….….. 95 3 Eastern and Central Latvia, August 17-22, 2014 Late Quaternary Terrestrial Processes, Sediments and History: from Glacial to Postglacial Environments Mapping shallow groundwater surface in terrigenous sediments using ground penetrating radar /Dāvids Bērziņš and Jānis Karušs/………………………………... 97 Groundwater flow peculiarities induced by post-glacial and modern karst, Skaistkalne vicinity, Central Latvian plains /Jānis Bikše, Konrāds Popovs, Aija Dēliņa and Alise Babre/……………………………………………………………… 98 Palaeoecological investigations and 230Th/U dating of Eemian interglacial peat sequence of Banzin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, NE-Germany /Andreas Börner, Anna Hrynowiecka, Vladislav Kuznetsov and Renata Stachowicz- Rybka/…….................................................................................................................... 99 The EU Encore Fresh Water Project: from fundamental research towards practice /Enno P. H. Bregman/………………………………………………………………... 101 The Late Saalian Hondsrug megaflute, Drenthe, The Netherlands: the base of an unique new European Geopark /Enno P. H. Bregman, Ilze Lūse, Mark Bakker, Harm J. Pierik, Florian W. H. Smit and Kim M. Cohen/…………………………….. 102 Effect of buried valleys on groundwater flow: a case study in the vicinity of Ventspils, NW Latvia /Aija Dēliņa, Kristīne Dūdiņa and Konrāds Popovs/................ 103 New data on the palaeoenvironment of South-Eastern Baltic region: results of the scientific project RFBR 1205-33013 /Olga Druzhinina/……………………….......... 105 Post-glacial environmental changes and the earliest human inhabitance of the Lake Dukštelis area, Eastern Lithuania /Laura Gedminienė, Gabrielė Rimkutė and Miglė Stančikaitė/…………………………………………………………………………… 106 Development of the Plateliai area in Late Weichselian and Holocene, NW Lithuania /Alma Grigienė and Asta Jusienė/………………………………………………......... 109 Current issues of geological mapping in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany /Alf Grube/... 110 Late Quaternary ice sheet dynamics in northeastern Germany – new insights in the formation of the Frankfurt ice marginal position based on the analysis of a high resolution LiDAR digital elevation model /Jacob Hardt and Margot Böse/……….... 111 ABCGheritage project – geological cooperation in northern Fennoscandia /Peter Johansson, Yury Voytekhovsky, Laura S. Lauri and Jouni Pihlaja/…………………. 113 Application of the pulsed OSL in feldspar contaminated aeolian sediments: a case study of Eastern Latvia and Southern Estonia /Edyta Kalińska-Nartiša, Māris Nartišs, Christine Thiel, Jan-Pieter Buylaert and Andrew Sean Murray/................... 114 Deglacial ice dynamics in Estonia as derived from glacial bedforms /Katrin Kalla and Tiit Hang/……………………………………………………………………....... 115 Morphogenetic classification of kame terraces in the Late Nemunas glaciation area of Lithuania /Danguolė Karmazienė/………………………………………………… 117 The isolation stratigraphy of small lakes in northern Lake Ladoga basin in reconstructions of the Baltic Ice Lake final stage and early Holocene glacioisostatic uplift /Denis Kuznetsov, Anna Ludikova and Tatyana Sapelko/……………………... 118 Glacial landforms in the forefield of Múlajökull surge-type glacier, Central Iceland /Kristaps Lamsters and Jānis Karušs/.......................................................................... 120 Carbonate cements in glacial sediments: a palaeohydrologic indicator of glacial environment /Pille Lomp and Maris Rattas/………………………………………..... 121 The diatoms of the Baltic Ice Lake: new data from the Lake Ladoga region, the easternmost part of the Baltic Ice Lake /Anna Ludikova/……………………………. 123 Upper Dnieper River since LGM: ice damming, glacio-isostatic effects and climatic forcing /Andrei Panin/………………………………………………………………... 123 4 Eastern and Central Latvia,