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Quaternary of Croatia

An interdisciplinary workshop on the Quaternary of Croatia was held in Zagreb in 2015 as a final part of a Croatian-German bilateral project entitled “Tools for modelling past and future global climate change: Case study of loess- palaeosol sequences (Quaternary aeolian deposits) from Istria and Kvarner (North Adriatic area)”. The main aim of the workshop was to enable researchers working in different fields of Quaternary geology in Croatia to present their latest findings and results. High quality presentations and great interest of the audience for the topics presented were the base to propose a Special Issue in Quaternary International. Seven of the 22 papers included in this special issue were presented at this workshop. Furthermore, the contributions and enthusiasm of those researchers, not present at the workshop as presenters but as audience, was beyond our expectations. Depending on the research topic, contributions published in this issue can be subdivided into several groups with prevailing focus on the investigation of loess-palaeosol and alluvial sequences (eight contributions) and lake sediments (six contributions) as well as papers about cave monitoring programs and investigation of speleothems (two contributions). Since caves in Croatian karst regions are also potential important Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites, three contributions are related to this topic. One contribution synthetize the Early to Late Pleistocene and Holocene faunas from selected locations in the Eastern Adriatic region. Detailed morphometric analysis of the weathering features of two surfaces from the Croatian coast (Kornat Island) that had different exposure evolution during the last millennia are presented in one contribution. The last contribution elaborates the role of recently submerged tidal notches in evaluating subsidence along the eastern Adriatic coast.

Quaternary ; Croatia

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