Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials
Offshore archives retrieved from marine/lacustrine environments receiving sediment from large river systems are valuable Quaternary continental records. In the present study, we reconstruct the Danube River activity at the end of the last glacial period based on sedimentological, mineralogical and g...
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:49701 2023-05-15T16:30:01+02:00 Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials Martinez-Lamas, Ruth Toucanne, Samuel Debret, Maxime Riboulot, Vincent Deloffre, Julien Boissier, Audrey Cheron, Sandrine Pitel, Mathilde Bayon, Germain Giosan, Liviu Soulet, Guillaume 2020-02 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/49701/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/49701/1/Martinez-Lamas.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136 en eng Elsevier https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/49701/1/Martinez-Lamas.pdf Martinez-Lamas, R., Toucanne, S., Debret, M., Riboulot, V., Deloffre, J., Boissier, A., Cheron, S., Pitel, M., Bayon, G., Giosan, L. and Soulet, G. (2020) Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials. Quaternary Science Reviews, 229 (Article number 106136). DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136>. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Article PeerReviewed 2020 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136 2023-04-07T15:50:37Z Offshore archives retrieved from marine/lacustrine environments receiving sediment from large river systems are valuable Quaternary continental records. In the present study, we reconstruct the Danube River activity at the end of the last glacial period based on sedimentological, mineralogical and geochemical analyses performed on long-piston cores from the north-west Black Sea margin. Our data suggest that the Danube River produced hyperpycnal floods throughout the ca. 33–17 ka period. Four main periods of enhanced Danube flood frequency, each of 1.5–3 kyr duration, are recorded at ca. 32.5–30.5 ka (equivalent to the first part of Heinrich Stadial –HS– 3), at ca. 29–27.5 ka (equivalent to Greenland Stadial 4), at ca. 25.3–23.8 ka (equivalent to HS 2) and at ca. 22.3–19 ka. Based on mineralogical and geochemical data, we relate these events to enhanced surface melting of the Alpine Ice Sheet (AIS) that covered ∼50,000 km2 of the Danube watershed at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Our results suggest that (i) the AIS growth from the inner Alps to its LGM position in the northern Alpine foreland started from ca. 30.5 ka, ended no later than ca. 25.3 ka, and was interrupted by a melting episode ca. 29–27.5 ka; (ii) the AIS volume drastically decreased from ca. 22.3 to 19 ka, as soon as summer insolation energy at the AIS latitude increased; and (iii) HSs strongly impacted the AIS mass balance through enhanced summer surface melt. This, together with evidence of severely cool winters and the rapid expansion of sea ice in the North Atlantic, implies strong seasonality in continental Europe during stadials. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Ice Sheet North Atlantic Sea ice OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) Greenland Quaternary Science Reviews 229 106136 |
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Offshore archives retrieved from marine/lacustrine environments receiving sediment from large river systems are valuable Quaternary continental records. In the present study, we reconstruct the Danube River activity at the end of the last glacial period based on sedimentological, mineralogical and geochemical analyses performed on long-piston cores from the north-west Black Sea margin. Our data suggest that the Danube River produced hyperpycnal floods throughout the ca. 33–17 ka period. Four main periods of enhanced Danube flood frequency, each of 1.5–3 kyr duration, are recorded at ca. 32.5–30.5 ka (equivalent to the first part of Heinrich Stadial –HS– 3), at ca. 29–27.5 ka (equivalent to Greenland Stadial 4), at ca. 25.3–23.8 ka (equivalent to HS 2) and at ca. 22.3–19 ka. Based on mineralogical and geochemical data, we relate these events to enhanced surface melting of the Alpine Ice Sheet (AIS) that covered ∼50,000 km2 of the Danube watershed at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Our results suggest that (i) the AIS growth from the inner Alps to its LGM position in the northern Alpine foreland started from ca. 30.5 ka, ended no later than ca. 25.3 ka, and was interrupted by a melting episode ca. 29–27.5 ka; (ii) the AIS volume drastically decreased from ca. 22.3 to 19 ka, as soon as summer insolation energy at the AIS latitude increased; and (iii) HSs strongly impacted the AIS mass balance through enhanced summer surface melt. This, together with evidence of severely cool winters and the rapid expansion of sea ice in the North Atlantic, implies strong seasonality in continental Europe during stadials. |
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Martinez-Lamas, Ruth Toucanne, Samuel Debret, Maxime Riboulot, Vincent Deloffre, Julien Boissier, Audrey Cheron, Sandrine Pitel, Mathilde Bayon, Germain Giosan, Liviu Soulet, Guillaume Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials |
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Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials |
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Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials |
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Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials |
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Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials |
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Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials |
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linking danube river activity to alpine ice-sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka bp): insights into the continental signature of heinrich stadials |
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https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/49701/1/Martinez-Lamas.pdf Martinez-Lamas, R., Toucanne, S., Debret, M., Riboulot, V., Deloffre, J., Boissier, A., Cheron, S., Pitel, M., Bayon, G., Giosan, L. and Soulet, G. (2020) Linking Danube River activity to Alpine Ice-Sheet fluctuations during the last glacial (ca. 33–17 ka BP): Insights into the continental signature of Heinrich Stadials. Quaternary Science Reviews, 229 (Article number 106136). DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136>. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106136 |
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