Distinct lake level lowstand in Lake Prespa (SE Europe) at the time of the 74 (75) ka Toba eruption

The 74 (75) ka Toba eruption in Sumatra, Indonesia, is considered to be one of the largest volcanic events during the Quaternary. Tephra from the Toba eruption has been found in many terrestrial and marine sedimentary deposits, and acidity peaks related to the eruption have been used to synchronize...

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Main Authors: Leng, Melanie J., Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Böhm, A., Panagiotopoulos, K., Vogel, H., Lacey, J. H., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R.
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spelling ftleicester:oai:lra.le.ac.uk:2381/32650 2023-05-15T14:03:42+02:00 Distinct lake level lowstand in Lake Prespa (SE Europe) at the time of the 74 (75) ka Toba eruption Leng, Melanie J. Wagner, B. Wilke, T. Böhm, A. Panagiotopoulos, K. Vogel, H. Lacey, J. H. Zanchetta, G. Sulpizio, R. 2015-07-14T09:00:58Z http://www.clim-past.net/10/261/2014/cp-10-261-2014.html http://hdl.handle.net/2381/32650 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-261-2014 en eng Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union Climate of the Past, 2014, 10, pp. 261-267 1814-9332 http://www.clim-past.net/10/261/2014/cp-10-261-2014.html http://hdl.handle.net/2381/32650 doi:10.5194/cp-10-261-2014 Copyright © the authors, 2014. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Journal Article Article 2015 ftleicester https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-261-2014 2019-03-22T20:20:22Z The 74 (75) ka Toba eruption in Sumatra, Indonesia, is considered to be one of the largest volcanic events during the Quaternary. Tephra from the Toba eruption has been found in many terrestrial and marine sedimentary deposits, and acidity peaks related to the eruption have been used to synchronize ice core records from Greenland and Antarctica. Seismic profiles and sedimentological data from Lake Prespa on the Balkan Peninsula, SE Europe, indicate a lake level lowstand at 73.6 ± 7.7 ka based on ESR dating of shells. Tephrostratigraphy, radiocarbon dating and tuning of the total organic carbon content with the NGRIP isotope record, corroborate that the lake level lowstand was a short-term event superimposed on the general cooling trend at the end of MIS 5, most likely at the onset of the Greenland Stadial GS-20. Acknowledging that tectonic events or karst processes could have triggered this lake level lowstand, the chronological correspondence between the lowstand and the Toba eruption is intriguing. Therefore a Toba-driven short-term shift to aridity in the Balkan region, leading to lake level changes and triggering spatial expansion events in one of the lake's most abundant benthic species, the carino mussel Dreissena presbensis, cannot be excluded. Peer-reviewed Publisher Version Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Greenland ice core NGRIP University of Leicester: Leicester Research Archive (LRA) Greenland Climate of the Past 10 1 261 267
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description The 74 (75) ka Toba eruption in Sumatra, Indonesia, is considered to be one of the largest volcanic events during the Quaternary. Tephra from the Toba eruption has been found in many terrestrial and marine sedimentary deposits, and acidity peaks related to the eruption have been used to synchronize ice core records from Greenland and Antarctica. Seismic profiles and sedimentological data from Lake Prespa on the Balkan Peninsula, SE Europe, indicate a lake level lowstand at 73.6 ± 7.7 ka based on ESR dating of shells. Tephrostratigraphy, radiocarbon dating and tuning of the total organic carbon content with the NGRIP isotope record, corroborate that the lake level lowstand was a short-term event superimposed on the general cooling trend at the end of MIS 5, most likely at the onset of the Greenland Stadial GS-20. Acknowledging that tectonic events or karst processes could have triggered this lake level lowstand, the chronological correspondence between the lowstand and the Toba eruption is intriguing. Therefore a Toba-driven short-term shift to aridity in the Balkan region, leading to lake level changes and triggering spatial expansion events in one of the lake's most abundant benthic species, the carino mussel Dreissena presbensis, cannot be excluded. Peer-reviewed Publisher Version
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author Leng, Melanie J.
Wagner, B.
Wilke, T.
Böhm, A.
Panagiotopoulos, K.
Vogel, H.
Lacey, J. H.
Zanchetta, G.
Sulpizio, R.
spellingShingle Leng, Melanie J.
Wagner, B.
Wilke, T.
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Panagiotopoulos, K.
Vogel, H.
Lacey, J. H.
Zanchetta, G.
Sulpizio, R.
Distinct lake level lowstand in Lake Prespa (SE Europe) at the time of the 74 (75) ka Toba eruption
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Wagner, B.
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Sulpizio, R.
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title Distinct lake level lowstand in Lake Prespa (SE Europe) at the time of the 74 (75) ka Toba eruption
title_short Distinct lake level lowstand in Lake Prespa (SE Europe) at the time of the 74 (75) ka Toba eruption
title_full Distinct lake level lowstand in Lake Prespa (SE Europe) at the time of the 74 (75) ka Toba eruption
title_fullStr Distinct lake level lowstand in Lake Prespa (SE Europe) at the time of the 74 (75) ka Toba eruption
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