Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE
Ranking among the largest volcanic eruptions of the Common Era (CE), the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan produced a widely-dispersed tephra layer (known as the B-Tm ash), which represents an important tie point for palaeoenvironmental studies in East Asia. Hitherto, there has been no consensus...
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ftethz:oai:www.research-collection.ethz.ch:20.500.11850/128095 2023-05-15T16:29:31+02:00 Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE Oppenheimer, Clive Wacker, Lukas Xu, Jiandong Galván, Juan Diego Stoffel, Markus Guillet, Sébastien Corona, Christophe Sigl, Michael Di Cosmo, Nicola Hajdas, Irka Pan, Bo Breuker, Remco Schneider, Lea Esper, Jan Fei, Jie Hammond, James O.S. Büntgen, Ulf 2017-02-15 application/application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/128095 https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000128095 en eng Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.12.024 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000394485500011 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/128095 doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000128095 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC-BY Quaternary Science Reviews, 158 Cosmogenic isotopes Eastern Asia Holocene Ice cores Paleoclimatology Tree-rings info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftethz https://doi.org/20.500.11850/128095 https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000128095 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.12.024 2022-04-25T13:59:56Z Ranking among the largest volcanic eruptions of the Common Era (CE), the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan produced a widely-dispersed tephra layer (known as the B-Tm ash), which represents an important tie point for palaeoenvironmental studies in East Asia. Hitherto, there has been no consensus on its age, with estimates spanning at least the tenth century CE. Here, we identify the cosmogenic radiocarbon signal of 775 CE in a subfossil larch engulfed and killed by pyroclastic currents emplaced during the initial rhyolitic phase of the explosive eruption. Combined with glaciochemical evidence from Greenland, this enables us to date the eruption to late 946 CE. This secure date rules out the possibility that the Millennium Eruption contributed to the collapse of the Bohai Kingdom (Manchuria/Korea) in 926 CE, as has previously been hypothesised. Further, despite the magnitude of the eruption, we do not see a consequent cooling signal in tree-ring-based reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures. A tightly-constrained date for the Millennium Eruption improves the prospect for further investigations of historical sources that may shed light on the eruption's impacts, and enhances the value of the B-Tm ash as a chronostratigraphic marker. ISSN:0277-3791 Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland ETH Zürich Research Collection Greenland |
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Ranking among the largest volcanic eruptions of the Common Era (CE), the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan produced a widely-dispersed tephra layer (known as the B-Tm ash), which represents an important tie point for palaeoenvironmental studies in East Asia. Hitherto, there has been no consensus on its age, with estimates spanning at least the tenth century CE. Here, we identify the cosmogenic radiocarbon signal of 775 CE in a subfossil larch engulfed and killed by pyroclastic currents emplaced during the initial rhyolitic phase of the explosive eruption. Combined with glaciochemical evidence from Greenland, this enables us to date the eruption to late 946 CE. This secure date rules out the possibility that the Millennium Eruption contributed to the collapse of the Bohai Kingdom (Manchuria/Korea) in 926 CE, as has previously been hypothesised. Further, despite the magnitude of the eruption, we do not see a consequent cooling signal in tree-ring-based reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures. A tightly-constrained date for the Millennium Eruption improves the prospect for further investigations of historical sources that may shed light on the eruption's impacts, and enhances the value of the B-Tm ash as a chronostratigraphic marker. ISSN:0277-3791 |
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Oppenheimer, Clive Wacker, Lukas Xu, Jiandong Galván, Juan Diego Stoffel, Markus Guillet, Sébastien Corona, Christophe Sigl, Michael Di Cosmo, Nicola Hajdas, Irka Pan, Bo Breuker, Remco Schneider, Lea Esper, Jan Fei, Jie Hammond, James O.S. Büntgen, Ulf |
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Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE |
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Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE |
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Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE |
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Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE |
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Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE |
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multi-proxy dating the ‘millennium eruption’ of changbaishan to late 946 ce |
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