Reconstruction of the Late and Mid-Pleistocene climate and landscape history in SE-Central Europe [Elektronische Ressource] : a paleopedological and geochemical multi-proxy approach in loess-paleosol studies / Björn Buggle. Betreuer: Bruno Glaser

Reconstruction of the Late and Mid-Pleistocene climate and landscape history in SE-Central Europe A paleopedological and geochemical multi-proxy approach in loess-paleosol studies. Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) an der Fakultät für Biologie / Chemie / Geowissenschaften der Universität Bayreuth vorgelegt von Björn Buggle (Dipl.-Geoökologe) geb. am 10.11.1981 in Kempten Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Bruno Glaser Bayreuth, Februar 2011 Dedicated to my parents and Soschi - in love and gratefulness- “Look back, lest you fail to mark the path ahead" Lovejoy (2007) I Contents Contents___________________________________________________________________ I List of Tables______________________________________________________________VI List of Figures _____________________________________________________________IX List of Abbreviations______________________________________________________ XIX Summary ______________________________________________________________XXV Zusammenfassung_____________________________________________________ XXVII Extended Summary_________________________________________________________ 1 1 Introduction________________________________________________________________ 2 1.1 Rationale ______________________________________________________________________ 2 1.