"Considering the longitudinal terrace profiles of the lower Ambleve, the
lower Ourthe and the Meuse from Liege to Maastricth, the fluvial deposit
covering the basis of the La Belle-roche sequence can be correlated with
the sint-Geertuid 3 terrace of the Meuse that formed during the Jaramillo
Event.
New sedimentological investigations of the La Belle-Roche deposits
revealed there is no sedimentological gap, either between the fluvial
deposit and the overlying lower solifluxion layer, or within the series of
solifluxion layers. The later is demonstrated for a long time. In fact,
palaeontolgoical evidence found throughout the threefold solifluxion
complex confirm that the three layers accumulated within a single
transition from a cold isotopic stage to a temperate on (i.e. a few
thousand years ago).
"In case of a 200 to 500-ka-long gap, one or several of the following
materials should be inserted into the sequence: (i) gelifracts that would
have detached from roofs and walls of the cave especially during cold
isotope stages; (ii) speleolthems that would have mostly developed during
warm isotope stages as evidenced by the fact that a speleothem overlies the
upper solifluxion layer; (iii) bone bed(s), since a cave opening allowed
solifluxion material to flow in.
"Furthermore fluvial gravel and overlain solifluxion layers locally
collapsed together into underlying dissolution cracks in limestone. This
implies that, during the 200 to 500-ka-long gap, dissolution and collapsing
would not have been active at all.
"Therefore it cannot be theorised that any previous series of sediemnts
would have been deposited ont he fluvial gravel, then eroded later on,
before the present sequence formed. In this case the runoff process--the
only one able to work on a flat surface (primary fluvial gravel)--would
have left coarse material as a pavement layer.
"Resulting from the complete lack of evidence of a 200 to 500-ka-long gap
within the layer ranges of the La Belle-Roche cave, it should also be
consistent to apply the Jaramilo age of the fluvial gravel to the overlying
palaeontological and archaeological layers.
"This new model shows that man would have been present in eastern Belgium
1 Ma ago; this is the most ancient evidence of the antiquity of Man in
northwest Europe." Virginie Renson, Etienne Juvigne and jean-Marie Cordy,
"Decourverte en faveur d'une revision de la chronologie du Quaternaire: la
grotte de lLa Belle-roche (Belgique); hypothese nouvelle concernant
l'anceinnete de l'Homme en Europe du Nord-Ouest." C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris,
328(1999:635-640, p. 636
There are a couple of sites in Europe where stone tools have been found
indicating the presence of humans even earlier in Europe as long ago as 2
myr. But as of the present time, the oldest human remains of man in Europe
appear to be 1 million years old.
glenn
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