A Detailed Paleoclimate Proxy Record for the Middle Danube Basin Over the Last 430 kyr: A Rock Magnetic and Colorimetric Study of the Zemun Loess-Paleosol Sequence

In mid-latitude Eurasia, loess-paleosol sequences (LPS) provide the most widespread sedimentary records of Quaternary paleoenvironmental evolution. Middle Danube Basin (MDB), these archives cover at least last million years climate history, and occasionally contain archeological findings. The studied Zemun LPS is located on right bank in Northern Serbia. site was declared as a protected site, based Paleolithic artifacts found riverbank stemming from unknown stratigraphic levels loess cliffs exposed along Danube. present study aims to stratigraphic, paleoenvironmental, temporal context for by means environmental magnetic colorimetric methods. Our investigations result chronostratigraphic scheme allowing direct comparison with other well-established reference MDB elsewhere. Two potential tephra layers tentatively assigned so-called L2 Bag tephras, which are both beyond were investigated their bulk properties. resulting integrated age model suggests that detailed history quasi-continuous accumulation mineral dust Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 11–5a (c. 430–60 ka). outcome our integrative approach indicates continuous aridification over four interglacial/glacial cycles we discuss changes seasonality time.