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Loess and Geoheritage Research Group (Research group)
Faculty of Science in Novi Sad
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The main research topic of our research team is to provide palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological reconstruction of Vojvodina region and wider by investigating loess palaeosol sequences.

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true Marković Slobodan slobodan.markovic@dgt.uns.ac.rs Faculty of Science in Novi Sad

Loess is windblown dust deposited over extensive areas in mid latitudes which covers 10% of Earth land surfaces. Loess dusts are transported and deposited by wind during glacial periods. Loess-palaeosol sequences are indeed interesting geological formations which enclose the Earth’s climate history over many glacial and interglacial cycles, or even geological ages. Loess deposits are interlayered with soil bodies, representing the shift from cold and dry to warm and wet climatic conditions. More than 60% of Vojvodina Region (Province in Northern Serbia) area is covered with loess and loesslike sediments. Since the late 1990s, based on the multidisciplinary research approach it has been discovered that the loess deposits in the Vojvodina region are among the oldest and most complete loess-palaeosol sequences in Europe. Consequently, loess-palaeosol sequences in the Vojvodina region could be regarded as one of the most important European terrestrial records of climatic and environmental changes during the last million years.

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• Marković, S.B., Oches, E., Sümegi, P., Jovanović, M., Gaudenyi, T. 2006. An introduction to the Upper and Middle Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences of Ruma section (Vojvodina, Serbia). Quaternary International 149, 80-86.
• Marković, S.B., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Gaudenyi, T., Frechen, M. 2007. Malacological and sedimentological evidence for “warm” climate from the Irig loess sequence (Vojvodina, Serbia).
Geophysics, Geochemistry and Geosystems 8, Q09008, DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001565.
• Marković, S.B., Bokhorst, M, Vandenberghe, J., Oches, E.A., Zöller, L., McCoy, W.D., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanović, M., Hambach, U., Machalett, B. 2008. Late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences in the Vojvodina region, North Serbia. Journal of Quaternary Science 23, 73-84.
• Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Catto, N., Jovanović, M., Buggle, B., Machalett, B., Zöller, L., Glaser, B. Frechen, M. 2009. The middle and late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences at Batajnica, Vojvodina, Serbia. Quaternary International 198, 255-266.
• Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Heller, F., William D. McCoy, W.D., Oches, E.A., Buggle, B., Zöller, L. 2011. The last million years recorded at the Stari Slankamen loess-palaeosol sequence: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term environmental trends. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 1142-1154.

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Prirodno-matematički fakultet Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3 21000 Novi Sad Srbija
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