The Peribaltic Group
Field Symposium on Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Glacial Chronology in Southern Estonia
May 18-23, 1999, University of Tartu, Estonia

Organiser: V. Kalm

The 1999 symposium of the Peribaltic Group was held in southern Estonia from May 18-23 under the leadership of Volli Kalm (University of Tartu) and his co-workers. Again this time, we had a big number of participants including our colleagues from North America. This well-organised and certainly very interesting symposium consisted of one day with paper and poster session, and 5 days of field excursion at which we visited numerous sections and geomorphic sites related to glacial geology, stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Quaternary. In particular, we saw glaciotectonically dislocated Holsteinian interglacial deposits in Kõrveküla, kames with disturbed internal structure at Inglimäe, interlobate Karula Upland complex, an 180-m-deep ancient burried valley filled with Quaternary sediments at Rõuge, a palaeo-ice lobe setting with ice disintergration features NW of Misso, exposures with extremely coarse-grained outwash deposits in Haanja Upland, intermorainic deposits in Kammeri, Kurenurme and Viitka, Eemian Interglacial deposits in Rõngu, deformed and brecciated drumlin sediments in Tulimäe, subglacial till facies in Tamme, the Lake Peipsi sediments, and the Saadjärv drumlin field. An extraterrestrial touch was given at Ilumetsa, where we visited a spectacular, 6000 years old impact crater.

It was therefore a full program of various topics, interesting for a wide range of Quaternary specialists. We enjoyed the hospitality of our Estonian colleagues and we left Tartu with a thorough overview of Quaternary geology in southern Estonia. Some of us will certainly visit these sites again for joint, collaborative investigations.

Jan A. Piotrowski
September 1999

Papers and posters given at the symposium:

A comparison of the late ice age events in Latvia with S. Ontario, Canada, and their correlations with oxygen-isotope stratigraphy
A. Dreimanis, I. Danilans, V. Zelcs

Correlation of different till beds in South Estonia
A. Raukas

Middle Pleistocene sequence in eastern Belarus
I. Pavlovskaya

Problems of Weichselian tills in the lower Odra area
H. Kampmann, M. Böse

Stratigraphy of pleistocene deposits in ancient valleys in the central part of North-Estonia
E. Kadastik

Structural investigations of late poozerje moraines in the ?Komarishki? outcrop (North-western Belarus)
M.E. Komarovsky

Marginal zones of the late glaciation (Wisla, Weichselian) in northeastern Poland
A. Ber

Ice-bed processes on a deformable substratum inferred from the short-travelled diamicton mélange at Amsdorf, central Germany
J.A. Piotrowski, K. Hoffmann

Glaciotectonic landforms of the Eastern-Kursa upland, Latvia
I. Strautnieks

Implementation of glaciotectonic structures and landforms for reconstruction of deglaciation in Latvia
V. Zelcs

Discussional circumstances in the deglaciation history of the Eastern Baltic (Southern Estonia and Northern Latvia)
R. Karukäpp

Micromorphic analysis of oriented till blocks, glacial grains and Devonian sands in Estonia and Latvia
W.C. Mahaney, V. Kalm

Petrographical reason for extent of Warta ice-sheet in the ne Poland
K. Kenig

Quaternary geology map of Estonia
K. Kajak

New section of the Alexandriya (Holstein) interglaciation in Belarus
Y. Yelovicheva

Stratotypical quaternary section at the village Volnoye in Ukraine
Y. Yelovicheva, B. Vozgrin,

New results from the Holstenian site Hyby, Alnarp valley, southwestern Sweden
U. Miller, E. Liivrand

The Younger Dryas as a Pleistocene stratigraphic unit
J.E. Mojski

Plant macrofossil assemblages of Eemian and early Weichselian deposits in Latvia
A. Cerina

Marine pleistocene deposits in Latvia
L. Kalnina

Stratigraphical position of raunis interstadial in glaciation curve of late Peistocene in Latvia
I. Jakubovska, A. Savvaitov, I. Veinbergs, V. Stelle

Diatom flora of early-middle weichselian sequences from south Lithuania
V. Seiriene

Palaeoenvironmental changes over the late 600,000 years as derived from mollusc-based ESR-chronostratigraphy in the Eurasian north
A. Molodkov

A theory of ice sheet drainage networks and the origin of esker systems
G.S. Boulton, S. Zatsepi, B. Maillot

Early pleistocene fluvial deposits in the Sudetes (SW Poland)
A. Kowalska, W. Sroka

Proglacial sedimentation in Andrioniskis area, north-east Lithuania
N. Blazauskas

Extraglacial river system during the late glaciation in Central Poland
L. Marks

Polyphase kame terrace on the Island Pag (eastern Adriatic, Croatia)
L. Marjanac, T. Marjanac

The evolution of the Baltic sea basin: a major factor favored the quaternary history of Belarus
A. Karabanov

Neotectonic movements in the Lithuanian Baltic coast area
A. Bitinas, A. Damusyte

A high-resolution lake sediment record from the Karelian Isthmus, St. Peterburg region, Russia
D.A. Subbetto, B. Wohlfarth, N.N. Davydova, T.V. Sapelko

Bottom deposits of lake Peipsi – pilot study
T. Hang, V. Kalm, A. Miidel

Possible connection of the Neva and Luga varve chronologies, NW Russia
T. Hang

Recultivation of abandoned gravel and sand quarries in Voru County, Estonia
A. Rosentau