Paleoelevation of mountain ranges caused climate change in central Europe

Little is known about the long-term Quaternary climate evolution of central and southeast Europe, because suitable terrestrial paleoenvironmental records are scarce. A group of geoscientists around Dr. Björn Buggle and Dr. Ulrich Hambach presents a multiproxy record of loess paleosol sequences in the Middle and Lower Danube Basins over the past 700 k.y. and concludes that a small-scale increase in paleoelevation of central European mountain ranges during the Middle Pleistocene might be the cause of the progressive increase in climate continentality of southeast European lowlands.