An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean
Speleothem-based stable isotope records are valuable in sub-humid and semi-arid settings where many other terrestrial climate proxies are fragmentary. The Eastern Mediterranean is one such region. Here we present an 80-kyr-long precisely-dated (by U-series) and high-resolution oxygen (delta O-18) an...
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fthacettepeuniav:c7d186a6-751c-4544-827c-b78108dbd778 2023-05-15T15:52:47+02:00 An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean YÜCE, GALİP Unal-Imer, Ezgi Shulmeister, James Zhao, Jian-Xin Uysal, I. Tonguc Feng, Yue-Xing Nguyen, Ai Duc 2015-09-04T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13560 https://avesis.hacettepe.edu.tr/publication/details/c7d186a6-751c-4544-827c-b78108dbd778/oai eng eng c7d186a6-751c-4544-827c-b78108dbd778 doi:10.1038/srep13560 https://avesis.hacettepe.edu.tr/publication/details/c7d186a6-751c-4544-827c-b78108dbd778/oai info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2015 fthacettepeuniav https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13560 2022-12-13T11:19:32Z Speleothem-based stable isotope records are valuable in sub-humid and semi-arid settings where many other terrestrial climate proxies are fragmentary. The Eastern Mediterranean is one such region. Here we present an 80-kyr-long precisely-dated (by U-series) and high-resolution oxygen (delta O-18) and carbon (delta C-13) records from Dim Cave (similar to 36 degrees N) in SW Turkey. The glacial-interglacial delta O-18 variations in the Dim Cave speleothem are best explained in terms of changes in the trajectories of winter westerly air masses. These are along a northerly (European) track (isotopically less depleted) during the early last glaciation but are gradually depressed southward closer to the modern westerly track along the North African coast (more depleted) after c.50 kyr and remain in the southern track through the Last Glacial Maximum. The southward displacement of the westerly track reflects growth of the Fennoscandian ice sheet and its impact on westerly wind fields. Changes in delta C-13 are interpreted as reflecting soil organic matter composition and/or thickness. delta C-13 values are significantly more negative in interglacials reflecting active carbonic acid production in the soil and less negative in glacial times reflecting carbonate rock values. Several Heinrich events are recorded in the Dim record indicating intensification of westerly flow across this part of the EM. Article in Journal/Newspaper Carbonic acid Fennoscandian Ice Sheet Hacettepe University Research Information System Scientific Reports 5 1 |
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Speleothem-based stable isotope records are valuable in sub-humid and semi-arid settings where many other terrestrial climate proxies are fragmentary. The Eastern Mediterranean is one such region. Here we present an 80-kyr-long precisely-dated (by U-series) and high-resolution oxygen (delta O-18) and carbon (delta C-13) records from Dim Cave (similar to 36 degrees N) in SW Turkey. The glacial-interglacial delta O-18 variations in the Dim Cave speleothem are best explained in terms of changes in the trajectories of winter westerly air masses. These are along a northerly (European) track (isotopically less depleted) during the early last glaciation but are gradually depressed southward closer to the modern westerly track along the North African coast (more depleted) after c.50 kyr and remain in the southern track through the Last Glacial Maximum. The southward displacement of the westerly track reflects growth of the Fennoscandian ice sheet and its impact on westerly wind fields. Changes in delta C-13 are interpreted as reflecting soil organic matter composition and/or thickness. delta C-13 values are significantly more negative in interglacials reflecting active carbonic acid production in the soil and less negative in glacial times reflecting carbonate rock values. Several Heinrich events are recorded in the Dim record indicating intensification of westerly flow across this part of the EM. |
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YÜCE, GALİP Unal-Imer, Ezgi Shulmeister, James Zhao, Jian-Xin Uysal, I. Tonguc Feng, Yue-Xing Nguyen, Ai Duc An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean |
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YÜCE, GALİP Unal-Imer, Ezgi Shulmeister, James Zhao, Jian-Xin Uysal, I. Tonguc Feng, Yue-Xing Nguyen, Ai Duc |
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An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean |
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An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean |
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An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean |
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An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean |
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An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean |
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80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from dim cave, sw turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the eastern mediterranean |
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