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标题：First Chronological Constraints for the High Terraces of the Upper Ebro Catchment
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作者：Josep M. Parés ; Mathieu Duval ; Angel Soria-Jáuregui 等
期刊名称：Quaternary
电子版ISSN：2571-550X
出版年度：2021
卷号：4
期号：3
页码：25
DOI：10.3390/quat4030025
语种：English
出版社：MDPI AG
摘要：The Cenozoic sedimentary basins in the Iberian Peninsula show a change from long-term basin infill to incision, a transition that indicates a period of major drainage reorganization that culminated in the throughflow of the networks to the Atlantic and Mediterranean oceans. Both the cause of the transition from aggradation to degradation and the linkages to tectonic, climatic, and geomorphic events hinge on the chronology of the fluvial network incision and excavation of the basin’s sedimentary fills. In this paper, we describe the first chronologic data on the highest fluvial terraces of the upper area of the Ebro River, one of the largest fluvial systems in the Iberian Peninsula, to determine the onset of incision and excavation in the basin. For this purpose, we combine electron spin resonance (ESR) and paleomagnetism methods to date strath terraces found at 140, 90, and 85 m above the current river level. Our results show ages of ca. 1.2 and 1.5 Ma for the uppermost river terraces in the upper Ebro catchment, constraining the minimum age of the entrenchment of the upper Ebro River.