Late Pleistocene mollusk fauna in terrace deposits of the Zeleniv section (Northern Bukovyna, Ukraine)

Abstract

Cyclical climate changes in past at the regional and local scales are well recorded in the terrace deposits. Therefore, their study allows us to detail knowledge about the nature development in the region, to trace the cyclical changes in natural conditions during the deposits’ formation, to find out their genesis, etc.

Unlike the Dniester valley, the age and dismemberment of the river terraces in the pre-Carpathian part of the Upper Prut remains studied insufficiently. There are still not many sections with strong and fully dissected subaerial strata. It is mainly due to the poorly preserved terraces, which are strongly deformed by landslide processes, especially on the right bank of the Prut River. There is also practically no mention of sections of terraces with remains of large mammals’ fauna and mollusks.