The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections
The ice core recovered from Prospector Russell Col on Mt Logan (5.4 km a.s.l.), in the Yukon spans over 20 000 years. This unique record offers a Pacific view of the stable isotope and chemical record from the Lateglacial to the present. The timescale is based on seasonal counted years, the largest...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0959683608092236 2024-09-15T18:12:03+00:00 The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections Fisher, David Osterberg, Erich Dyke, Art Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Demuth, Mike Zdanowicz, Christian Bourgeois, Jocelyne Koerner, Roy M. Mayewski, Paul Wake, Cameron Kreutz, Karl Steig, Eric Zheng, James Yalcin, Kaplan Goto-Azuma, Kumiko Luckman, Brian Rupper, Summer 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683608092236 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683608092236 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license The Holocene volume 18, issue 5, page 667-677 ISSN 0959-6836 1477-0911 journal-article 2008 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683608092236 2024-09-03T04:20:18Z The ice core recovered from Prospector Russell Col on Mt Logan (5.4 km a.s.l.), in the Yukon spans over 20 000 years. This unique record offers a Pacific view of the stable isotope and chemical record from the Lateglacial to the present. The timescale is based on seasonal counted years, the largest known volcanic acid signatures and the major shift in stable isotopes and chemistry at the end of the Younger Dryas. There are large and sustained changes in the stable isotopic record that are anti-correlated with marine and continental chemistry series. The oxygen-18 in this area is not a proxy for palaeotemperature but rather for source region. The last major isotope shift in AD 1840 in δ( 18 O) and chemistry is compared with the Quinn's ENSO record. During periods of more frequent La Niña (stronger tropical easterlies) there is more zonal flow of water vapour transport to the Pacific Northwest, δ( 18 O) values are larger and the deuterium excess d smaller. These periods coincide with periods of lower accumulation/precipitation in southern Yukon. The Holocene δ( 18 O) record indicates many large shifts between the meridional (strong El Niño) and zonal (La Niña). Comparison of the Logan isotopic record and the moisture/temperature-sensitive time series of peat bog inception dates for the Northwest shows a strong correlation (0.36) that points to high accumulation rates coincident with low δ( 18 O) and enhanced meridional flow. Major changes in the core at 4200 BP and 7000—8000 BP point to enhanced meridional flow, which coincide with big changes in the Pacific palaeorecords of the balance between El Niño and La Niña. 4200 BP seems to have inaugurated the `modern' ENSO world. Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core Yukon SAGE Publications The Holocene 18 5 667 677 |
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The ice core recovered from Prospector Russell Col on Mt Logan (5.4 km a.s.l.), in the Yukon spans over 20 000 years. This unique record offers a Pacific view of the stable isotope and chemical record from the Lateglacial to the present. The timescale is based on seasonal counted years, the largest known volcanic acid signatures and the major shift in stable isotopes and chemistry at the end of the Younger Dryas. There are large and sustained changes in the stable isotopic record that are anti-correlated with marine and continental chemistry series. The oxygen-18 in this area is not a proxy for palaeotemperature but rather for source region. The last major isotope shift in AD 1840 in δ( 18 O) and chemistry is compared with the Quinn's ENSO record. During periods of more frequent La Niña (stronger tropical easterlies) there is more zonal flow of water vapour transport to the Pacific Northwest, δ( 18 O) values are larger and the deuterium excess d smaller. These periods coincide with periods of lower accumulation/precipitation in southern Yukon. The Holocene δ( 18 O) record indicates many large shifts between the meridional (strong El Niño) and zonal (La Niña). Comparison of the Logan isotopic record and the moisture/temperature-sensitive time series of peat bog inception dates for the Northwest shows a strong correlation (0.36) that points to high accumulation rates coincident with low δ( 18 O) and enhanced meridional flow. Major changes in the core at 4200 BP and 7000—8000 BP point to enhanced meridional flow, which coincide with big changes in the Pacific palaeorecords of the balance between El Niño and La Niña. 4200 BP seems to have inaugurated the `modern' ENSO world. |
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Fisher, David Osterberg, Erich Dyke, Art Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Demuth, Mike Zdanowicz, Christian Bourgeois, Jocelyne Koerner, Roy M. Mayewski, Paul Wake, Cameron Kreutz, Karl Steig, Eric Zheng, James Yalcin, Kaplan Goto-Azuma, Kumiko Luckman, Brian Rupper, Summer |
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Fisher, David Osterberg, Erich Dyke, Art Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Demuth, Mike Zdanowicz, Christian Bourgeois, Jocelyne Koerner, Roy M. Mayewski, Paul Wake, Cameron Kreutz, Karl Steig, Eric Zheng, James Yalcin, Kaplan Goto-Azuma, Kumiko Luckman, Brian Rupper, Summer The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections |
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Fisher, David Osterberg, Erich Dyke, Art Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Demuth, Mike Zdanowicz, Christian Bourgeois, Jocelyne Koerner, Roy M. Mayewski, Paul Wake, Cameron Kreutz, Karl Steig, Eric Zheng, James Yalcin, Kaplan Goto-Azuma, Kumiko Luckman, Brian Rupper, Summer |
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The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections |
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The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections |
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The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections |
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The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections |
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The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record: tropical Pacific—Yukon connections |
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