Structure,composition, and depositional environments of recent sediments in the Upper Don River basin inferred from the Korostelevo section

The complex study carried out in the Upper Don River basin yielded comprehensive lithogeochemical, paleopedological, and paleontological data on recent sediments of the Korostelevo stratotype section. They provided grounds for the facies-genetic discrimination, subdivision, and correlation of the defined horizons based on paleopedological and paleontological data with the Neopleistocene time scale. The results made it possible to reconstruct environmental paleogeography for the early Neopleistocene-Holocene period and provided rhythmoclimatic substantiation of the stratigraphic subdivision of recent sediments in the study region.