Abstract
ABSTRACT: Individual palaeoenvironmental records represent a combination of regional-scale (e.g. climatic) and site-specific local factors. Here we compare multiple climate proxies from two nearby maar lake records, assuming that common signals are due to regional-scale forcing. A new core sequence from Nar Lake in Turkey is dated by varves and U–Th to the last 13.8 ka. Markedly dry periods during the Lateglacial stadial, at 4.3–3.7 and at 3.2–2.6 ka BP, are associated with peaks in Mg/dolomite, positive d18O, elevated diatom-inferred
electrical conductivity, an absence of laminated sediments and low Quercus/chenopod ratios. Wet phases occurred during the early–mid Holocene and 1.5–0.6 ka BP, characterized by negative d18O, calcite precipitation, high Ca/Sr ratios, a high percentage of planktonic diatoms, laminated sediments and high Quercus/chenopod ratios. Comparison with the record from nearby Eski Acıgo¨ l shows good overall correspondence for many proxies, especially for d18O. Differences are related to basin infilling and lake ontogeny at Eski Acıgo¨ l, which consequently fails to register climatic changes during the last 2 ka, and to
increased flux of lithogenic elements into Nar Lake during the last 2.6 ka, not primarily climatic in origin. In attempting to separate a regional signal from site-specific ‘noise’, two lakes may therefore be better than one. Copyright # 2016 The Authors. Journal of Quaternary Science Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 348-362 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Quaternary Science |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2016 |
Keywords
- eastern Mediterranean; Holocene; isotopes; lakes; multi-proxy