Magnetostratigraphy und rock magnetism Süttö

For the development of new innovative techniques in luminescence dating, LIAG (S3 Frechen) was able to raise funds from the Leibniz “Pakt für Forschung und Innovation” for three years (2008-2010). With these new dating tools that will be developed it will be able to determine sedimentation ages from older loess deposits than was possible before. In addition to this effort, our working group „rock and palaeomagnetism“ has taken samples from a loess palaeosoil profile (14 m in total) near Suettö (Hungary). For the first time we used a new sampling technique in loess deposits (Schnepp et al. 2008). One aim is to get a stratigraphic framework, independent of luminescence dating, by using measurements of palaeointensity and comparison with master curves of palaeointensity (for example GLOPIs 75; Laj et al. 2004). In addition we are looking for reversals of the Earth's magnetic field to identify absolute time markers. The coeval determination of rock magnetic minerals as climate proxies will provide details on changes in the environment.