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Related materials to Lauterbach et al. (2011) Environmental responses to Lateglacial climatic fluctuations recorded in the sediments of pre-Alpine Lake Mondsee (northeastern Alps)

Lauterbach, Stefan | Brauer, Achim | Andersen, Nils | Danielopol, Dan | Dulski, Peter | Hüls, Matthias | Milecka, Krystyna | Namiotko, Tadeusz | Obremska, Milena | Von Grafenstein, Ulrich

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ

(2011)

Descriptions

Investigation of the sedimentary record of pre-Alpine Lake Mondsee (Upper Austria) focused on the environmental reaction to rapid Lateglacial climatic changes. Results of this study reveal complex proxy responses that are variable in time and influenced by the long-term evolution of the lake and its catchment. A new field sampling approach facilitated continuous and precisely controlled parallel sampling at decadal to sub-annual resolution for m-XRF element scanning, carbon geochemistry, stable isotope measurements on ostracods, pollen analyses and large-scale thin sections for microfacies analysis. The Holocene chronology is established through microscopic varve counting and supported by accelerator mass spectrometric 14C dating of terrestrial plant macrofossils, whereas the Lateglacial age model is based on d18O wiggle matching with the Greenland NGRIP record, using the GICC05 chronology. Microfacies analysis enables the detection of subtle sedimentological changes, proving that depositional processes even in rather large lake systems are highly sensitive to climate forcing. Comparing periods of major warming at the onset of the Lateglacial and Holocene and of major cooling at the onset of the Younger Dryas reveals differences in proxy responses, reflecting threshold effects and ecosystem inertia. Temperature increase, vegetation recovery, decrease of detrital flux and intensification of biochemical calcite precipitation at the onset of the Holocene took place with only decadal leads and lags over a ca. 100 a period, whereas the spread of woodlands and the reduction of detrital flux lagged the warming at the onset of the Lateglacial Interstadial by ca. 500-750 a. Cooling at the onset of the Younger Dryas is reflected by the simultaneous reaction of d18O and vegetation, but sedimentological changes (reduction of endogenic calcite content, increase in detrital flux) were delayed by about 150-300 a. Three short-term Lateglacial cold intervals, corresponding to Greenland isotope substages GI-1d, GI-1c2 and GI-1b, also show complex proxy responses that vary in time.

Keywords


MSL enriched keywords
minerals
chemical elements
carbon
carbonate minerals
calcite
Phanerozoic
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Holocene
analysis
geochronology
carbon-14 dating
equipment
x-ray spectrometer
x-ray fluorescence spectrometer
measured property
age of sample
carbon-14 age

MSL enriched sub domains i

geochemistry


Source publisher

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ


DOI

10.1594/gfz.sddb.1420


Creators

Lauterbach, Stefan

Brauer, Achim

Andersen, Nils

Danielopol, Dan

Dulski, Peter

Hüls, Matthias

Milecka, Krystyna

Namiotko, Tadeusz

Obremska, Milena

Von Grafenstein, Ulrich


References

10.1002/jqs.1448


Citation

Lauterbach, S., Brauer, A., Andersen, N., Danielopol, D., Dulski, P., Hüls, M., Milecka, K., Namiotko, T., Obremska, M., & Von Grafenstein, U. (2011). Related materials to Lauterbach et al. (2011) Environmental responses to Lateglacial climatic fluctuations recorded in the sediments of pre-Alpine Lake Mondsee (northeastern Alps) [Data set]. Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/GFZ.SDDB.1420


Dates

Issued:

2011-03-24


Language

en