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Deciphering the Holocene evolution of the St. Lawrence River drainage system using luminescence and radiocarbon dating
Authors:L Lamarche  V Bondue  M-J Lemelin  M Lamothe  AG Roy
Institution:

aDépartement des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère, Laboratoire de luminescence Lux, Université du Québec à Montréal, Cp 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Que., Canada H3C 3P8

bDépartement de Géographie, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Que., Canada H3C 3J7

Abstract:The St. Lawrence River is an important drainage route for eastern North American fresh waters. Following Late Pleistocene deglaciation, several fluctuations in base level have fine-tuned the evolution of the ancestral St. Lawrence. These fluctuations are hereby dated using K-feldspar infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) and radiocarbon. The accuracy of the individual IRSL dates was achieved by properly correcting for thermal transfer and anomalous fading. For each site investigated, widely used statistical approaches in equivalent dose data have been used to establish which age model, the central or the minimum model, would be appropriate to define the “true” depositional age. The chronology of the succession of regional lake levels is based on careful mapping and dating of the regional dunes, beaches and deltaic sediments. A relative time-space evolution history could be drawn, from ca. 8000 years BP to the present time period. Three major fluctuations are documented for the middle to late Holocene. An unexpected finding, from the ages cluster diagram, is that there have been times in the recent past (ca. 1000–4000 years BP) when the river level was lower or at the same elevation as today. The potential for K-feldspar IRSL to accurately date the Holocene lacustrine evolution is critical in the St. Lawrence River modern drainage basin, an environment that might be negatively impacted over the next century.
Keywords:St  Lawrence River  Quaternary  Deglaciation  Proto-St  Lawrence  Luminescence (IRSL)  Radiocarbon
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