title: Direct terrestrial-marine correlation demonstrates surprisingly late onset of the last interglacial in central Europe.
abstract: An interdisciplinary study of a small sedimentary basin at Neumark Nord 2 (NN2), Germany, has yielded a high-resolution record of the palaeomagnetic Blake Event, which we are able to place at the early part of the last interglacial pollen sequence documented from the same section. We use this data to calculate the duration of this stratigraphically important event at 3400 ± 350 yr. More importantly, the Neumark Nord 2 data enables precise terrestrial-marine correlation for the Eemian stage in central Europe. This shows a remarkably large time lag of ca. 5000 yr between the MIS 5e 'peak' in the marine record and the start of the last interglacial in this region.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands ; Paleomagnetic Laboratory 'Fort Hoofddijk', Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands ; National Center for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca s/n, 09002 Burgos, Spain.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Sier
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wil
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Roebroeks
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Corrie C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bakels
authors.affiliation: Paleomagnetic Laboratory 'Fort Hoofddijk', Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Dekkers
authors.affiliation: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Richard-Wagner-Str. 9, 06114 Halle, Germany ; Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit, Schloss Monrepos, 56567 Neuwied, Germany.
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brühl
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Dimitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Loecker
authors.affiliation: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit, Schloss Monrepos, 56567 Neuwied, Germany ; Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Schönborner Hof, Schillerstrasse 11, 55116 Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gaudzinski-Windheuser
authors.affiliation: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Richard-Wagner-Str. 9, 06114 Halle, Germany.
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hesse
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jagich
authors.affiliation: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit, Schloss Monrepos, 56567 Neuwied, Germany.
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kindler
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wim J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Kuijper
authors.affiliation: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Richard-Wagner-Str. 9, 06114 Halle, Germany ; Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit, Schloss Monrepos, 56567 Neuwied, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laurat
authors.affiliation: Prinses Beatrixsingel 21, 6301 VK Valkenburg, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Herman J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Mücher
authors.affiliation: "BioArCh" Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
authors.forename: Kirsty E H
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Penkman
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.affiliation: Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands vei 24, 0391 Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Douwe J J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: van Hinsbergen
keywords: Blake Event; Eemian; Last interglacial; MIS 5e; Palaeomagnetism