Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations ...

• Main Authors: Stewart, Helena, Bradwell, Tom, Bullard, Joanna, McCulloch, Robert D, Millar, Ian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SAGE Journals 2022
• Subjects: Geography; History; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.6278248.v1; https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Increased_North_Atlantic_dust_deposition_linked_to_Holocene_Icelandic_glacier_fluctuations/6278248/1

Mineral dust concentrations are coupled to climate over glacial-interglacial cycles with increased dust deposition occurring during major cold phases over the last ~100 ka. Holocene records suggest considerable spatial and temporal variability in the magnitude, frequency and timing of dust peaks that reflects regional or local drivers of dust emissions and transport. Here, we present stratigraphical, geochemical and isotopic evidence for dust deposition from two high-resolution peat sequences 200 km apart in northern Scotland spanning the last c. 8200 years. εNd isotope data suggest the dominant minerogenic dust source switches between a low latitude (likely Saharan) and a high latitude, Icelandic source. Marked peaks in increased minerogenic dust deposition at: c. 5.4–5.1, 4.0–3.9, 2.8–2.6, 1.0 and 0.3 ka BP occur against a backdrop of low dust deposition during the mid-Holocene (c. 5.0–4.0 ka BP) and increased background levels of dust during the neoglacial period (<4.0 ka BP). These dust peaks coincide ...