TY - JOUR

T1 - Middle and Late Quaternary glacial lake-outburst floods, drainage diversions and reorganization of fluvial systems in northwestern Eurasia

AU - Panin, Andrei V.

AU - Astakhov, Valery I.

AU - Lotsari, Eliisa

AU - Komatsu, Goro

AU - Lang, Jörg

AU - Winsemann, Jutta

N1 - Funding Information: Chapter 3 (A.P.) contributes to the Russian Science Foundation Project 17-17-01289, Chapter 5 (A.P.) ? to the Presidium RAS Program No.8, Subprogram ?Fundamental problems of geological and geophysical study of lithospheric processes? (Section 5.1) and IGRAS State Target Project ? 0148-2019-0005 (Sections 5.2, 5.3). E.L. thanks M.Sc. Mariana Verdonen (University of Eastern Finland) for helping to translate publications written originally in Russian. A.P. thanks PhD Andrei Zakharov (Institute of Geography RAS) and B.Sc. Anna Utkina (Lomonosov Moscow State University) for the assistance in preparation of several illustrations. All authors thank J. Carrivick, M. Margold and two anonymous reviewers as well as guest editors J.Herget and P. Carling for insightful comments, which helped to improve this manuscript. Funding Information: Chapter 3 (A.P.) contributes to the Russian Science Foundation Project 17-17-01289, Chapter 5 (A.P.) – to the Presidium RAS Program No.8, Subprogram "Fundamental problems of geological and geophysical study of lithospheric processes" ( Section 5.1 ) and IGRAS State Target Project № 0148-2019-0005 ( Sections 5.2 , 5.3 ). E.L. thanks M.Sc. Mariana Verdonen (University of Eastern Finland) for helping to translate publications written originally in Russian. A.P. thanks PhD Andrei Zakharov (Institute of Geography RAS) and B.Sc. Anna Utkina (Lomonosov Moscow State University) for the assistance in preparation of several illustrations. All authors thank J. Carrivick, M. Margold and two anonymous reviewers as well as guest editors J.Herget and P. Carling for insightful comments, which helped to improve this manuscript.

PY - 2020/2

Y1 - 2020/2

N2 - The Middle and Late Pleistocene glaciations of northern Eurasia had a great impact on the evolution of the modern drainage system. This paper presents a review and synthesis on the palaeogeography of glacial lakes, their drainage and impact on the re-organization of the drainage systems during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. We will focus on four regions: (1) northern Central Europe and Fennoscandia, (2) the central part of the East European Plain, (3) the west Siberian Plain and (4) the Aral – Caspian – Black Sea area. The main findings of the last decade(s) include the improved chronology of some major river system formation and of meltwater overflows across the continental drainage divides. Major drainage systems of the north-central and west-central part of the East European Plain (upper Volga, upper Dnieper) formed due to overspill of glacial lakes in late MIS 6 with a partial re-organization (upper Dnieper) in MIS 2. The Aral – Caspian – Black Sea cascade acted as a sink for glacial meltwater from the north. The major meltwater yield to the Aral and Caspian seas occurred in MIS 6 and late MIS 5. In MIS 2, the meltwater delivery via the Volga valley into the Caspian Sea was low and therefore had only a minor influence on the sea level. Considerable meltwater discharge to the Black Sea through the Dnieper River system occurred around the maximal stage of the MIS 2 glaciation and ceased very quickly after the onset of deglaciation.

AB - The Middle and Late Pleistocene glaciations of northern Eurasia had a great impact on the evolution of the modern drainage system. This paper presents a review and synthesis on the palaeogeography of glacial lakes, their drainage and impact on the re-organization of the drainage systems during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. We will focus on four regions: (1) northern Central Europe and Fennoscandia, (2) the central part of the East European Plain, (3) the west Siberian Plain and (4) the Aral – Caspian – Black Sea area. The main findings of the last decade(s) include the improved chronology of some major river system formation and of meltwater overflows across the continental drainage divides. Major drainage systems of the north-central and west-central part of the East European Plain (upper Volga, upper Dnieper) formed due to overspill of glacial lakes in late MIS 6 with a partial re-organization (upper Dnieper) in MIS 2. The Aral – Caspian – Black Sea cascade acted as a sink for glacial meltwater from the north. The major meltwater yield to the Aral and Caspian seas occurred in MIS 6 and late MIS 5. In MIS 2, the meltwater delivery via the Volga valley into the Caspian Sea was low and therefore had only a minor influence on the sea level. Considerable meltwater discharge to the Black Sea through the Dnieper River system occurred around the maximal stage of the MIS 2 glaciation and ceased very quickly after the onset of deglaciation.

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U2 - 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.103069

DO - 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.103069

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85077338183

VL - 201

JO - Earth-Science Reviews

JF - Earth-Science Reviews

SN - 0012-8252

M1 - 103069

ER -