New insights into Southern Caucasian glacial–interglacial climate conditions inferred from Quaternary gastropod fauna
Journal: Journal of Quaternary Science
Year: 2020

ABSTRACT In the present study, we performed gastropod analyses on loess–palaeosol sequences from northeast Armenia (Southern Caucasia) covering at least three glacial–interglacial cycles. The elaborated ecostratigraphy shows significant patterns of species composition related to the succession of pedocomplexes and loess, respectively. Pedocomplexes included species that can be associated with high‐grass to forest‐steppe biomes, indicating increased humidity for these sections compared to the loe