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This paper presents the results of measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of samples taken in the profiles of Holocene sediments. Locations from which samples were analyzed were previously investigated with various methods (such as geological, geomorphological, sedimentological, geochemical and pollen). Most of the examined sites have a well-known geological structure, the origin and age of existing forms. The sediments recognized with the drillings represent differentiated sedimentary environments (e.g., slopes, fluvial), differentiated facies (mineral and mineral-organic deposits, peat, carbonaceous tufa) and come from different types of the landscape: from Polish loess plateaus and associated valleys bottoms of Ponidzie to Middle Poland plains with dunes and alluvial fans occurring on the terrace in the Vistula River valley. Analysis of changes in magnetic susceptibility in selected well-recognized (i.e. of known age, origin and sedimentological features) vertical profiles makes it possible to determine the relationship between the measured value of magnetic susceptibility and environmental changes that have taken place in the past. Knowledge of these relationships allows to read the events in the development of the natural environment of the studied areas and in the case of possession of radiocarbon dating in the reference profiles it allows to make a vertical correlation with the neighboring sediment profiles of unknown age.
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The research was financed by the grants: (1) from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education—Selected records of human impact in the evolution of the natural environment of Polish lowlands—primeval, historical and contemporary aspects (nr N306 013 31/0757, 2006-2010) and (2) from National Science Centre—Archaeological, archaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental investigations in the western part of the Nida Basin (nr 2013/11/B/HS3/03822, 2014-2017).
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Król, E., Szwarczewski, P. (2018). Magnetic Susceptibility of Sediments as an Indicator of the Dynamics of Geomorphological Processes. In: Jeleńska, M., Łęczyński, L., Ossowski, T. (eds) Magnetometry in Environmental Sciences. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60213-4_6
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