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Katharine Guiles Ellis Henry T. Mullins William P. Patterson 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2004,31(3):343-361
Climate change in the northeastern United States has been inferred for the last deglaciation to middle Holocene (∼16,600 to 6000 calendar years ago) using multi-proxy data (total organic matter, total carbonate content, δ18 O calcite and δ13 C calcite) from a 5 m long sediment core from Seneca Lake, New York. Much of the regional postglacial warming occurred during the well-known Bolling and Allerod warm periods (∼14.5 to 13.0 ka), but climate amelioration in the northeastern United States preceded that in Greenland by ∼2000 years. An Oldest Dryas climate event (∼15.1 to 14.7 ka) is recognized in Seneca Lake as is a brief Older Dryas (∼14.1 ka) cold event. This latter cold event correlates with the regional expansion of glacial Lake Iroquois and global meltwater pulse IA. An increase in winter precipitation and a shorter growing season likely characterized the northeastern United States at this time. The Intra-Allerod Cold Period (∼13.2 ka) is also evident supporting an “Amphi-Atlantic Oscillation” at this time. The well-known Younger Dryas cold interval occurred in the northeastern United States between 12.9 and 11.6 ka, consistent with ice core data from Greenland. In the Seneca Lake record, however, the Younger Dryas appears as an asymmetric event characterized by an abrupt, high-amplitude beginning followed by a more gradual recovery. Compared to European records, the Younger Dryas in the northeastern United States was a relatively low-amplitude event. The largest amplitude and longest duration anomaly in the Seneca Lake record occurs after the Younger Dryas, between ∼11.6 and 10.3 ka. This “post-Younger Dryas climate interval” represents the last deglacial climate event prior to the start of the Holocene in the northeastern United States, but has not been recognized in Greenland or Europe. The early to middle Holocene in the northeastern United States was characterized by low-amplitude climate variability. A general warming trend during the Holocene Hypsithermal peaked at ∼9 ka coincident with maximum summer insolation controlled by orbital parameters. Millennial- to century-scale variability is also evident in the Holocene Seneca Lake record, including the well-known 8.2 ka cold event (as well as events at ∼7.1 and 6.6 ka). Hemispherical cooling during the Holocene Neoglacial in the northeastern United States began ∼5.5 ka in response to decreasing summer insolation. 相似文献
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Liseth Pérez Peter Frenzel Mark Brenner Jaime Escobar Philipp Hoelzmann Burkhard Scharf Antje Schwalb 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2011,46(1):59-74
We inferred late Pleistocene and early Holocene (24–10 ka BP) environmental conditions in and around Lago Petén Itzá, Guatemala
from ostracode remains in the lake sediments. Multivariate statistics were run on autecological information for 29 extant
ostracode species collected in 63 aquatic ecosystems on the Yucatán Peninsula along a steep, increasing NW–S precipitation
gradient and across a large altitudinal range. Conductivity and water depth are the most important factors that shape ostracode
communities. Transfer functions were developed and applied to fossil ostracode assemblages in a ~76-m sediment core (PI-6,
~85 ka) taken in 71 m of water from Lago Petén Itzá, to infer past shifts in conductivity and water level. Results suggest
climate was cold and wet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Alternating dry and wet conditions characterized the deglacial.
Early Holocene climate was warmer and wetter. The LGM was characterized by low ostracode species richness (4 spp.) and abundance
(<940 valves g−1), dominance of benthic over nektobenthic taxa, abundant Physocypria globula, conductivity as low as 190 μS cm−1, and clay-rich sediments with relatively high total organic carbon and low C/N ratios (<14), suggesting relatively deeper
water at the core site associated with abundant precipitation. Greatest water depth at the core site during the LGM occurred
late in the period and was ~50 m. The deglacial was characterized by drier conditions, higher ostracode species richness (6
spp.) and abundances up to 18,115 valves g−1, dominance of nektobenthic species, and presence of shallow-water and littoral-zone indicators such as Heterocypris punctata and Strandesia intrepida, conductivity up to 550 μS cm−1, C/N ratios as high as 37, and gypsum deposition. Lowest inferred lake depth at the core site during the deglacial was ~20 m.
The early Holocene was characterized by high numbers of ostracode remains, up to 25,500 valves g−1, and the presence of L. opesta and P. globula. Cytheridella ilosvayi was absent from late Pleistocene sediments, suggesting it colonized northern Central America during the Holocene. 相似文献
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Juan Pablo Corella Ana Moreno Mario Morellón Valentí Rull Santiago Giralt María Teresa Rico Ana Pérez-Sanz Blas Lorenzo Valero-Garcés 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2011,46(3):351-367
Sedimentological, mineralogical and compositional analyses performed on short gravity cores and long Kullenberg cores from
meromictic Montcortès Lake (Pre-Pyrenean Range, NE Spain) reveal large depositional changes during the last 6,000 cal years.
The limnological characteristics of this karstic lake, including its meromictic nature, relatively high surface area/depth
ratio (surface area ~0.1 km2; z
max = 30 m), and steep margins, facilitated deposition and preservation of finely laminated facies, punctuated by clastic layers
corresponding to turbidite events. The robust age model is based on 17 AMS 14C dates. Slope instability caused large gravitational deposits during the middle Holocene, prior to 6 ka BP, and in the late
Holocene, prior to 1,600 and 1,000 cal yr BP). Relatively shallower lake conditions prevailed during the middle Holocene (6,000–3,500 cal years
BP). Afterwards, deeper environments dominated, with deposition of varves containing preserved calcite laminae. Increased
carbonate production and lower clastic input occurred during the Iberian-Roman Period, the Little Ice Age, and the twentieth
century. Although modulated by climate variability, changes in sediment delivery to the lake reflect modifications of agricultural
practices and population pressure in the watershed. Two episodes of higher clastic input to the lake have been identified:
1) 690–1460 AD, coinciding with an increase in farming activity in the area and the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and 2) 1770–1950 AD,
including the last phase of the Little Ice Age and the maximum human occupation in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 相似文献
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Krystyna Szeroczyńska Andrzej Tatur Jan Weckström Michał Gąsiorowski Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz Elwira Sienkiewicz 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2007,38(1):25-47
A 2.5-m-long sediment core was retrieved from Lake Somaslampi, a small lake located in a kame field on the north slope of
the Scandes Mountains in Finnish Lapland. Holocene environmental changes were inferred from the lithological, geochemical,
pollen, diatom and Cladocera records stored in the lake sediment. The chronology was based on six radiocarbon AMS dates supported
by a palynological control chronology. The sediment profile consists of a glacial sedimentary sequence truncated by a lacustrine
one. A hiatus, tentatively correlated with climate cooling and advances of glaciers during the 8.2 ka yrs BP “Finse cooling
Event”, occurs between these sequences. The glacial sequence was composed of fluvioglacial clastics, smoothly changing into
glacio-lacustrine diatomaceous ooze deposited in a meromictic proglacial lake that covered the kame field. The meromixis was
probably caused by the greater depth of the lake, the extended ice-cover, and the microbial mats covering large areas of the
lake bottom. A distinct change in the biota of the glacio-lacustrine sediments indicates higher trophic conditions than during
deposition of the fluvioglacial clastics. The late-Pleistocene vegetation was characterised by subarctic birch tundra vegetation
(Betula–Salix–Ericaceae) with low biodiversity gradually changing to Betula–Pinus dominance in the early Holocene. The lake was deep and had a diatom inferred pH ~ 7 indicated also by the dominance of planktonic
Cladocera.
The base of the lacustrine sediment sequence (6,650–6,300 cal. BP) consisted of loess-rich sediment indicating an increase
in eolian activity. This is also supported by the pollen record, which is dominated by more long-distant taxa such as Alnus and Pinus, and by the increased C/N ratio of the sediment. After the initial meromictic phase of the lake, an abrupt lowering of the
water level occurred. Lake Somaslampi was isolated from the larger Pre-Lake Somas basin and became holomictic, shallow, much
warmer and more productive, until the deterioration of climate around 3,000 yr BP and the increased input of clastics from
the tundra soils. The vegetation followed the general climatic trend by gradually changing from the dominance of Betula and Pinus to the dominance of more tundra-related vegetation like Poaceae and Cyperaceae. However, the higher frequencies of planktonic
Cladocera and centric diatoms in the most recent sediments indicates higher trophic conditions, increased turbulence and a
prolonged ice-free period, which can possibly be linked to the recent climate warming especially in areas of higher altitude
and latitude. 相似文献
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Holocene millennial-scale climate variations documented by multiple lake-level proxies in sediment cores from Hurleg Lake,Northwest China 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Cheng Zhao Zicheng Yu Yan Zhao Emi Ito Kenneth P. Kodama Fahu Chen 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,44(4):995-1008
Millennial-scale climate variability has not been well documented in arid northwest China due to the scarcity of high-resolution,
well-dated paleoclimate records. Here we present multi-proxy records from sediment cores taken in freshwater Hurleg Lake on
the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, which reveal millennial-scale lake-level and climate variations over the past 8,000 years.
This high-elevation region is very sensitive to large-scale climate change, thus allowing us to better understand Holocene
climate variations in East Asia. The lake-level record, derived from lithology, magnetic mineralogy, carbonate isotopes, ostracode
shell isotopes and trace elements, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and gray scale data, indicates a highly variable and generally
dry climate from 7.8 to 1 ka (1 ka = 1,000 cal year BP), and a relatively stable and wet climate after 1 ka. Superimposed
on this general trend, six dry intervals at 7.6–7.2 ka, 6.2–5.9 ka, 5.3–4.9 ka, 4.4–3.8 ka, 2.7–2.4 ka, and 1.7–1.1 ka were
detected from the high-resolution carbonate content and XRF data. The generally dry climate between 7.8 and 1 ka was almost
synchronous with the decrease of East Asian and Indian monsoon intensities shortly after 8 ka. The six dry intervals can be
correlated with weak monsoon events recorded in the East Asia and Indian monsoon regions, as well as the North Atlantic cold
events. Our data suggest that millennial-scale monsoon variations could cause highly variable climate conditions in arid northwest
China during the Holocene. These millennial-scale climate variations may reflect changes in solar variation and/or changes
in oceanic and atmospheric circulation. 相似文献
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Jennifer A. Nelson Kathy Licht Catherine Yansa Gabriel Filippelli 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,43(1):1-13
Records from lake sediment cores are critical for assessing the relative stability of climate and ecosystems over the Holocene.
Duck Lake in south-central Lower Michigan, USA, was the focus of a study that identified how changes in the geochemical variables
in lake sediments relate to variations in regional climate and local land use during the Holocene. More than 8.5 m of lacustrine
sediment were recovered using Livingston and freeze corers and analyzed for organic carbon, inorganic (carbonate) carbon,
total nitrogen, and trace metals. Repeating packages of sediment (1–10 cm thick) that grade from light (inorganic carbon-rich)
to dark (organic carbon-rich) were found from the surface to a depth of about 8 m. Variations in the high-resolution gray
scale data from core X-radiographs are highly correlated to the relative amount of inorganic carbon. Geochemical analyses
of the upper 8.5 m of sediment revealed a wide range of values: 0.05–10.6% for inorganic carbon (i.e. 0.5–89% calcium carbonate)
and 1.1–28% for organic carbon (i.e. 2.7–70% organic matter). Organic carbon to nitrogen ratios indicate that most of the
sediment organic matter is produced within the lake. A core chronology based on eight AMS radiocarbon dates shows low sediment
accumulation rates (0.05 cm/year) from 10,000 to 3,800 cal year BP and higher sediment accumulation rates (0.1–0.3 cm/year)
from 3,800 cal year BP to present. We suggest that carbonate accumulates during relatively dry times, whereas organic matter
accumulation dominates when nutrient input to the lake is enhanced by wetter climate. The Duck Lake core records a distinct
low point in inorganic carbon deposition that may be related to the 8.2 ka cooling event now documented from several sites
in North America. Spectral analysis of gray scale values shows significant ~200-year periodicities over the past 8,000 years,
hypothesized to result from climate changes induced by solar forcing. Concentrations of trace metals (e.g. lead, iron, copper,
zinc) indicate the onset of regional anthropogenic influence about 150 cal year BP. 相似文献
7.
We use a multi-proxy (n = 11) paleolimnological approach on deep-water sediment from eastern Lake Ontario to characterize both long- and short-term regional climate change over the past ~10,000 calendar years. Proxies included % total organic matter, % total carbonate, magnetic susceptibility, C/N ratios, % organic carbon, % total nitrogen, % biogenic silica and 18O and 13C of carbonate, as well as 13C and 15N of bulk organic matter. There is a marked shift in most proxies at ~9.4 ka which defines the start of Holocene warmth in this region. Prior to this, the area was influenced by the post-Younger Dryas cold/wet interval, controlled by a southward displacement of the polar front jet stream, when many proxies were at their minimum. The Hypsithermal interval (~9.4–5.3 ka) was the warmest and wettest of the Holocene due to a long-term increase in summer insolation. The Hypsithermal, however, was interrupted by two cold climates; the 8.2 ka event (~8.4–8.0 ka) and the Nipissing Rise (~6.8–5.0 ka), both of which are linked to a reduction in thermohaline circulation and northward oceanic heat transport. The Neoglacial interval (~5.3 ka to ~1850 AD), driven by a long-term decrease in summer insolation, was cooler and dryer, but more stable, than the Hypsithermal. The short Historic interval (post ~1850 AD) was characterized by some of the largest amplitude and most abrupt anomalies of the past 10,000 years, due to intense anthropogenic activity, when a number of proxies reached unprecedented values. 相似文献
8.
Philip A. Meyers 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2002,28(2):237-244
The amounts and types of carbon delivered to the sediments Seneca Lake, New York, have varied since the middle Holocene. Concentrations of CaCO3 first fluctuate between 14 and 6% around 7 ka before decreasing erratically until about 5 ka and then remain 2% in younger sediments. Because the amount of calcite that precipitates in hard-water lakes is related to summertime thermal stratification, the carbonate fluctuations suggest that cyclic strengthening and weakening of seasonality at intervals of about three centuries accompanied the end of the Holocene Hypsithermal in northeast North America. Organic C/total N values record short, decade-long intervals of enhanced delivery of land-plant material during episodes of wetter climate that are independent of the temperature variations. Higher organic 13C values indicate that recent fertilization of lake waters from soil disturbance and land-derived runoff has increased aquatic productivity. 相似文献
9.
Piston cores from deep-water bottom deposits in Lake Ontario contain shallow-water sediments such as, shell-rich sand and
silt, marl, gyttja, and formerly exposed shore deposits including woody detritus, peat, sand and gravel, that are indicative
of past periods of significantly lower water levels. These and other water-level indicators such as changes in rates of sedimentation,
mollusc shells, pollen, and plant macrofossils were integrated to derive a new water-level history for Lake Ontario basin
using an empirical model of isostatic adjustment for the Great Lakes basin to restore dated remnants of former lake levels
to their original elevations. The earliest dated low-level feature is the Grimsby-Oakville bar which was constructed in the
western end of the lake during a near stillstand at 11–10.4 (12.9–12.3 cal) ka BP when Early Lake Ontario was confluent with
the Champlain Sea. Rising Lake Ontario basin outlet sills, a consequence of differential isostatic rebound, severed the connection
with Champlain Sea and, in combination with the switch of inflowing Lake Algonquin drainage northward to Ottawa River valley
via outlets near North Bay and an early Holocene dry climate with enhanced evaporation, forced Lake Ontario into a basin-wide
lowstand between 10.4 and 7.5 (12.3 and 8.3 cal) ka BP. During this time, Lake Ontario operated as a closed basin with no
outlets, and sites such as Hamilton Harbour, Bay of Quinte, Henderson Harbor, and a site near Amherst Island existed as small
isolated basins above the main lake characterized by shallow-water, lagoonal or marsh deposits and fossils indicative of littoral
habitats and newly exposed mudflats. Rising lake levels resulting from increased atmospheric water supply brought Lake Ontario
above the outlet sills into an open, overflowing state ending the closed phase of the lake by ~7.5 (8.3 cal) ka BP. Lake levels
continued to rise steadily above the Thousand Islands sill through mid-to-late Holocene time culminating at the level of modern
Lake Ontario. The early and middle Holocene lake-level changes are supported by temperature and precipitation trends derived
from pollen-climate transfer functions applied to Roblin Lake on the north side of Lake Ontario. 相似文献
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Diatoms reveal complex spatial and temporal patterns of recent limnological change in West Greenland
Bianca B. Perren Marianne S. V. Douglas N. John Anderson 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2009,42(2):233-247
Diatoms in sediment cores were analysed across a range of stratigraphic resolutions along a transect of 23 lakes spanning
the ice-free margin of the west coast of Greenland (~67°N), to explore spatial and temporal patterns of recent (last ~150 years)
environmental change in the region. These records display heterogeneous lake development trajectories over the last several
centuries. Estimates of species composition turnover (beta-diversity) since 1850 AD are among the lowest for lakes in the
Arctic, and are comparable to “unimpacted” reference lakes from temperate regions. Most of the change that occurred in West
Greenland lakes pre-dates potential industrial anthropogenic effects, while post-1850 change is well within the natural range
of variability for these systems. Nonetheless, a spatial pattern in core “top–bottom” changes is apparent across the transect:
lakes in the arid interior of the region, adjacent to the ice sheet, and those with higher pH, register greater change than
those in the more maritime climate of the coast. This suggests that climate plays an indirect role in the recent development
of these lakes, and that recent anthropogenic forcing has not yet exceeded major ecological thresholds in this region. 相似文献
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Early Holocene drought in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin caused hydrologic closure of Georgian Bay
Multiple proxies record aridity in the northern Great Lakes basin ~8,800–8,000 cal (8,000–7,200) BP when water levels fell
below outlets in the Michigan, Huron and Georgian Bay basins. Pollen-climate transfer function calculations on radiocarbon-dated
pollen profiles from small lakes from Minnesota to eastern Ontario show that a drier climate was sufficient to lower the Great
Lakes, in particular Georgian Bay, to closed basins. The best modern climate analog for the early Holocene late Lake Hough
stage in the Georgian Bay basin is Black Bass Lake near Brainerd MN. Modern annual precipitation at Brainerd is ~35% lower
than at Huntsville ON, in the Georgian Bay catchment; warmer summers and colder, less snowy winters make Brainerd drier than
the Georgian Bay snow belt. These values parallel transfer function reconstructions for the early Holocene from pollen records
at five small lakes in the Georgian Bay drainage basin. Higher evaporation and evapotranspiration due to greater seasonality
during the early Holocene produced a deficit in effective moisture in Georgian Bay that is recorded by the jack/red pine pollen
zone that spanned ~8,800–8,200 cal (8,000–7,500) BP. This deficit drove late Lake Hough ~5 m below Lake Stanley in the Huron
basin, following diversion of Laurentide Ice sheet meltwater from the Great Lakes basin. The level of Georgian Bay largely
depends not on fluvial input from its own drainage basin, but rather from Lake Superior, where the early Holocene moisture
deficit was greater. Reconstruction of paleoclimates in Minnesota, northwestern Ontario and Wisconsin produced a closed lake
in the Superior basin, which removed the main water input to Georgian Bay. Once the inflow through the St. Marys River was
reduced and inflow from other tributary streams was adjusted for isostatic and climatic differences, input was <5% of modern
values. Consequent high evaporation rates produced a significant fall in lake level in the Georgian Bay basin and a negative
water budget. This reduction in basin supply, together with the high conductivity of stagnant water in late Lake Hough inferred
from microfossils in lowstand sediments, peaked at the end of the jack/red pine zone, ~8,300–8,200 (7,450 ± 90) BP. These
major hydrologic changes resulting from climate change in the recent geologic past draw attention to possible declines of
the Great Lakes under future climates. 相似文献
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The environmental history of the Kootenay Valley in the southern Canadian Rockies was reconstructed using lake sediment from
Dog Lake, British Columbia, and compared to other paleoenvironmental studies in the region to understand how vegetation dynamics
and fire regimes responded to climate change during the Holocene. A pollen-based vegetation reconstruction indicates five
periods of vegetation change. At 10,300 cal yr B.P. Pinus-Juniperus parkland colonized the valley and by 7600 cal yr B.P. was replaced by mixed stands of Pinus, Picea and Pseudotsuga/Larix. Fire frequencies increased to their Holocene maximums during the 8200–4000 cal yr B.P. period. From 5500–4500 cal yr B.P.
Pseudotsuga/Larix reached its maximum extent in the Kootenay Valley under a more frequent fire regime. At 5000 cal yr B.P. Picea and Abies began to expand in the area and by 4500 cal yr B.P. the forest shifted to a closed montane spruce forest type with dramatically
reduced fire frequency. The shift to less frequent forest fires after 4500 cal yr B.P., along with a moisterPicea – dominated closed forest, corresponds to Neoglacial advances in the Canadian Rockies and Coast Mountains. Fire intervals
after 4000 cal yr B.P. are significantly longer than the shorter fire intervals of the early to mid Holocene. A return to
drier, more open forest condition occurs between 2400–1200 cal yr B.P. with a slight increase in fire activity and summer
drought events. Lower lake levels inferred by charophyte accumulation rates during the 2400–1200 cal yr B.P. interval support
this moisture regime shift. An abrupt shift toPicea dominated forest occurred from 1200–1000 cal yr B.P. and a final period of wet-closed forest cover reaches its maximum extent
from 700–150 cal yr B.P. that appears to be a response to Little Ice Age cooling. Present forests are within their natural
range of variability but are predicted to shift again to a drier more open structure with increased Pseudotsuga/Larix cover. More frequent stand replacing fires and increased area burned likely will accompany this change due to continued global
warming. 相似文献
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Alexander P. Wolfe 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1994,10(2):129-139
Diatom analyses from the longest continuous record of lacustrine sedimentation in the eastern Canadian Arctic indicate four phases of lake development during the past 20000 years. PlanktonicAulacoseira taxa are dominant between 20 and 10 ka and during the Neoglacial. The earliest Holocene is characterized byFragilaria, whereas benthic acidophils (e.g.Frustulia, Brachysira & Eunotia spp.) dominate sediments of early to mid Holocene age. Ordination by correspondence analysis illustrates stratigraphic changes in diatom life form and pH tolerances, and these are related to both regional paleoclimatic conditions and local edaphic factors. The occurrences of planktonic floras during the cold Late Foxe and Neoglacial periods suggests that, even at these times, the lake became ice free during summer. The interplay of increased runoff as a mechanism of ice disintegration and enhanced silicon supply by erosional processes (corroborated by the more clastic nature of the sediments during these periods) likely enabledAulacoseira to flourish. Early and mid Holocene limnological regimes were more strongly controlled by lake authigenic processes.This paper was presented at the VI Palaeolimnology Symposium, held at Canberra in April 1993. Dr. Mark Brenner guest edited this contribution. 相似文献
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Holocene climate and glacier variability at Hallet and Greyling Lakes,Chugach Mountains,south-central Alaska 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Evidence from lake sediments and glacier forefields from two hydrologically isolated lake basins is used to reconstruct Holocene
glacier and climate history at Hallet and Greyling Lakes in the central Chugach Mountains of south-central Alaska. Glacial
landform mapping, lichenometry, and equilibrium-line altitude reconstructions, along with changes in sedimentary biogenic-silica
content, bulk density, and grain-size distribution indicate a dynamic history of Holocene climate variability. The evidence
suggests a warm early Holocene from 10 to 6 ka, followed by the onset of Neoglaciation in the two drainage basins, beginning
between 4.5 and 4.0 ka. During the past 2 ka, the glacial landforms and lacustrine sediments from the two valleys record a
remarkably similar history of glaciation, with two primary advances, one during the first millennium AD, from ~500 to 800 AD,
and the second during the Little Ice Age (LIA) from ~1400 to 1900 AD. During the LIA, the reconstructed equilibrium-line altitude
in the region was no more than 83 ± 44 m (n = 21) lower than the modern, which is based on the extent of glaciers during 1978. Differences between the summer temperature
inferred from the biogenic-silica content and the evidence for glacial advances and retreats suggest a period of increased
winter precipitation from 1300 to 1500 AD, and reduced winter precipitation from 1800 to 1900 AD, likely associated with variability
in the strength of the Aleutian Low.
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Darrell S. KaufmanEmail: |
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We explored the potential for using Pediastrum (Meyen), a genus of green alga commonly found in palaeoecological studies, as a proxy for lake-level change in tropical South
America. The study site, Laguna La Gaiba (LLG) (17°45′S, 57°40′W), is a broad, shallow lake located along the course of the
Paraguay River in the Pantanal, a 135,000-km2 tropical wetland located mostly in western Brazil, but extending into eastern Bolivia. Fourteen surface sediment samples
were taken from LLG across a range of lake depths (2–5.2 m) and analyzed for Pediastrum. We found seven species, of which P. musteri (Tell et Mataloni), P. argentiniense (Bourr. et Tell), and P. cf. angulosum (Ehrenb.) ex Menegh. were identified as potential indicators of lake level. Results of the modern dataset were applied to
31 fossil Pediastrum assemblages spanning the early Holocene (12.0 kyr BP) to present to infer past lake level changes qualitatively. Early Holocene
(12.0–9.8 kyr BP) assemblages do not show a clear signal, though abundance of P. simplex (Meyen) suggests relatively high lake levels. Absence of P. musteri, characteristic of deep, open water, and abundance of macrophyte-associated taxa indicate lake levels were lowest from 9.8
to 3.0 kyr BP. A shift to wetter conditions began at 4.4 kyr BP, indicated by the appearance of P. musteri, though inferred lake levels did not reach modern values until 1.4 kyr BP. The Pediastrum-inferred mid-Holocene lowstand is consistent with lower precipitation, previously inferred using pollen from this site, and
is also in agreement with evidence for widespread drought in the South American tropics during the middle Holocene. An inference
for steadily increasing lake level from 4.4 kyr BP to present is consistent with diatom-inferred water level rise at Lake
Titicaca, and demonstrates coherence with the broad pattern of increasing monsoon strength from the late Holocene until present
in tropical South America. 相似文献
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M. E. Kirby S. P. Lund W. P. Patterson M. A. Anderson B. W. Bird L. Ivanovici P. Monarrez S. Nielsen 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,44(3):819-839
High-resolution terrestrial records of Holocene climate from Southern California are scarce. Moreover, there are no records
of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) variability, a major driver of decadal to multi-decadal climate variability for the region,
older than 1,000 years. Recent research on Lake Elsinore, however, has shown that the lake’s sediments hold excellent potential
for paleoenvironmental analysis and reconstruction. New 1-cm contiguous grain size data reveal a more complex Holocene climate
history for Southern California than previously recognized at the site. A modern comparison between the twentieth century
PDO index, lake level change, San Jacinto River discharge, and percent sand suggests that sand content is a reasonable, qualitative
proxy for PDO-related, hydrologic variability at both multi-decadal-to-centennial as well as event (i.e. storm) timescales.
A depositional model is proposed to explain the sand-hydrologic proxy. The sand-hydrologic proxy data reveal nine centennial-scale
intervals of wet and dry climate throughout the Holocene. Percent total sand values >1.5 standard deviation above the 150–9,700 cal year
BP average are frequent between 9,700 and 3,200 cal year BP (n = 41), but they are rare from 3,200 to 150 cal year BP (n = 6). This disparity is interpreted as a change in the frequency of exceptionally wet (high discharge) years and/or changes
in large storm activity. A comparison to other regional hydrologic proxies (10 sites) shows more then occasional similarities
across the region (i.e. 6 of 9 Elsinore wet intervals are present at >50% of the comparison sites). Only the early Holocene
and the Little Ice Age intervals, however, are interpreted consistently across the region as uniformly wet (≥80% of the comparison
sites). A comparison to two ENSO reconstructions indicates little, if any, correlation to the Elsinore data, suggesting that
ENSO variability is not the predominant forcing of Holocene climate in Southern California. 相似文献
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Pere Anadón Andrea Moscariello Julio Rodríguez-Lázaro M. L. Filippi 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2006,35(3):593-616
Stable isotopes and trace-element contents of ostracod (Candona neglecta) valves mostly from the Holocene portion of two assembled cores from Petit Lac (Lake Geneva, Switzerland-France) were analysed
in order to depict the geochemical record of post-glacial environmental changes of this lake. Additional stable isotope and
trace element data from the gastropod Bithynia tentaculata (shells and opercula) from some intervals of these cores, as well as previous data from bulk carbonate from the lower part
of the studied intervals were also considered. Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca molar ratios for the Holocene lake water have been estimated
from evaluations of the partitioning coefficients for Mg and Sr for C. neglecta and B. tentaculata taking into account the modern-lake water composition. This study shows an overall gentle trend to higher δ18O values in C. neglecta valves from the Boreal interval (mean −8.44‰) to the upper part of the core (mean −8.11‰). This trend is superimposed to
higher frequency oscillations of stable isotope values and trace element ratios, especially through the upper Older Atlantic
and the Subboreal. The overall isotopic oxygen trend includes several shifts in δ18O of about 1‰. These shifts are interpreted as major regional-global climate changes that have also been observed in other
coeval δ18O and pollen records which reflect the Holocene climate variability in other European basins. Especially well-defined peaks
in some episodes like Older Atlantic (~8200 yr BP), Younger Atlantic – Subboreal transition (~5600 yr BP) and early Subatlantic
(~ 2500 yr BP) correspond to well-recognized events in globally-distributed records. Some of these shifts are correlated with
pulses in the lake-level curve of the Lake Geneva.
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Serpent River Bog lies north of North Channel, 10 m above Lake Huron and 15 m below the Nipissing Great Lake level. A 2.3 m
Holocene sequence contains distinct alternating beds of inorganic clastic clay and organic peat that are interpreted as evidence
of successive inundation and isolation by highstands and lowstands of the large Huron-Basin lake. Lowstand phases are confirmed
by the presence of shallow-water pollen and plant macrofossil remains in peat units. Twelve 14C dates on peat, wood and plant macrofossils combined with previously published 14C ages of lake-level indicators confirm much of the known early Holocene lake-level history with one notable exception. A
new Late Mattawa highstand (8,390 [9,400 cal]–8,220 [9,200 cal] BP) evidenced by a sticky blue-grey clay bed is tied to outburst
floods of glacial Lake Minong during erosion of the Nadoway drift barrier in the eastern Lake Superior basin. A subsequent
Late Mattawa highstand (8,110 [9,040 cal]–8,060 [8,970 cal] BP) is attributed to enhanced meltwater inflows that first had
deposited thick varves throughout Superior Basin. Inundation by the Nadoway floods and possibly the last Mattawa flood were
likely responsible for termination of the Olson Forest (southern Lake Michigan). A pollen diagram supports the recognized
progression of Holocene vegetation, and defines a subzone implying a very dry, cool climate about 7.8–7.5 (8.6–8.3 cal) ka
BP based on the Alnus crispa profile during the Late Stanley lowstand. A new date of 9,470 ± 25 (10,680–10,750 cal) BP on basal peat over lacustrine clay
at Espanola West Bog supports the previous interpretation of the Early Mattawa highstand at ca. 9,500 (10,740 cal) BP. The
organic and clastic sediment units at these two bogs are correlated with other records showing coherent evidence of Holocene
repeated inundation and isolation around northern Lake Huron. Taken together the previous and new lake-level data suggest
that the Huron and Georgian basin lakes were mainly closed lowstands throughout early Holocene time except for short-lived
highstands. Three of the lowstands were exceptionally low, and likely caused three episodes of offshore sediment erosion which
had been previously identified as seismo-stratigraphic sequence boundaries. 相似文献
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A multi-proxy approach to reconstruct hydrological changes and Holocene climate development of Nam Co, Central Tibet 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
I. Mügler G. Gleixner F. Günther R. Mäusbacher G. Daut B. Schütt J. Berking A. Schwalb L. Schwark B. Xu T. Yao L. Zhu C. Yi 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,43(4):625-648
Holocene lake level fluctuations were reconstructed from a 2.7-m sediment core from Nam Co, Central Tibet, China dating to >7.2 cal ka BP. Results were compared to existing lake records from the Tibetan Plateau to infer variations in the strength of the Asian Monsoon. Geomorphological features in the Nam Co catchment, such as beach ridges and lake terraces, indicate high lake stands during the late Glacial. A major low stand is suggested for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Sands and sandy silts at the base of the core are transgressive facies, with material transported by melt water and deposited under rising lake level conditions that followed the LGM low stand. Variations in grain size, major elements, biomarker stable isotopes and minerals in the core suggest a climate evolution reflected in at least five depositional units and subunits. Sediments in Unit I (~7.2 to ~5.4 cal ka BP) were deposited at highest lake levels. Large amounts of allogenic minerals and allochthonous organic matter suggest high precipitation and melt water input, implying positive water balance. Increasing aquatic productivity points to favourable environmental conditions. Unit II (~5.4 to ~4.0 cal ka BP) marks a transition between favourable, stable hydrological conditions and lake level decrease. Lower lake levels were a consequence of drier climate with less monsoonal precipitation, higher evaporation rates, and increased moisture recycling in the catchment. Unit III (~4.0 to ~1.4 cal ka BP) reflects the driest periods recorded, at ~3.7 cal ka BP and 1.6 cal ka BP. Lake shrinkage and salinization was interrupted as suggested by the deposition of Unit IV (~1.4 to ~0.8 cal ka BP), when increased precipitation and runoff that might be related to the Medieval Warm Period, led to a stable, but still low lake level. Unit V (800 cal years BP—present) is characterized by progressive lake shrinkage due to intense evaporation. Large fluctuations in geochemical variables indicate humid and arid periods, respectively, at Nam Co between ~450 and ~200 cal years BP, with the latter assumed to correspond to the Little Ice Age. Modern hydrological data indicate the lake level is rising. Comparison of the Nam Co record with other lake records from the Tibetan Plateau suggests general agreement with the broader picture of Holocene environmental evolution. The timing of dry and wet climate conditions at lake sites across Tibet indicates a gradually decreasing influence of the southern monsoon during the Holocene, from NW to SE. Nevertheless, further research is needed to improve our understanding of Holocene spatio-temporal hydrological variations across the Asian continent. 相似文献
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C. F. M. Lewis G. D. M. Cameron T. W. Anderson C. W. HeilJr. P. L. Gareau 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2012,47(3):493-511
Water levels in the Lake Erie basin are inferred from glacial lake times to present. An era of early to middle Holocene lowstands
is defined below outlets by a submerged paleo-beach, and truncated reflectors in glaciolacustrine sediment beneath a mud-covered
wave-cut terrace. Also, the glacial clay surface above the paleo-shore level has elevated shear strength because of porewater
drainage during subaerial exposure. Below the paleo-shore where exposure did not occur, clay strength remained normal. Sedimentation
rates were reduced during the lowstands. The distortion of once-level shore zone indicators by differential glacial rebound
was removed by computing original elevations of the indicators using an empirical model of rebound based on observations of
upwarped former lake shorelines. Erie water-level history was inferred from a plot of the original elevations of lake-level
constraints and outlets versus age. The lake history was validated by reference to ~83 water-level indicators, not used as
constraints. During the deglaciation, lake-crossing moraines were likely eroded by fluvial drainage into low-level Lake Ypsilanti
and a subsequent unnamed low lake to produce the Lorain Valley and Pennsylvania Channel. Once inflow from the upper Great
Lakes basins was directed to Ottawa Valley about 10,400 (12,270 cal BP), Erie water levels descended in a dry, evaporative
climate to a closed lowstand during which ostracode δ18O increased ~2‰ above present values. Lake level began to rise 6,000 to 7,000 (6,830 to 7,860 cal) BP in response to increased
atmospheric moisture and later, to northern inflow as the Nipissing Transgression returned upper Great Lakes drainage to Lake
Erie by about 5,200 (6,000 cal) BP. At that time, the lake overflowed the uplifted Lyell–Johnson Sill north (downstream) of
the present Niagara Falls at higher-than-present levels. After recession of the Falls breached this sill about ~3,500 (~3,770 cal)
BP, Lake Erie fell 3–4 m to its present Fort Erie–Buffalo Sill. The extended low-water phase with its isolated sub-basins
could have restricted migration of aquatic fauna. The early to middle Holocene closed-basin response highlights the sensitivity
of Lake Erie to climatic reductions in its water budget. 相似文献