A Holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway
International audience Two lacustrine sediment cores from Oldevatnet in western Norway have been studied in order to produce a record of floods, mass-wasting events and glacier fluctuations during the last 7300 years. River floods, density currents and snow-avalanches have deposited distinct 'e...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.il0a40 2023-05-15T16:21:58+02:00 A Holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway Vasskog, Kristian Nesje, Atle Nagel Støren, Eivind Waldmann, Nicolas Chapron, Emmanuel Ariztegui, Daniel Department of Earth Science Bergen (UiB) University of Bergen (UiB) Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut Forel and Department of Geology and Paleontology University of Geneva Switzerland 2012-01-01 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683610391316 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00665776 en eng HAL CCSD London: Sage insu-00665776 doi:10.1177/0959683610391316 10670/1.il0a40 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00665776 undefined Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 0959-6836 EISSN: 1477-0911 The Holocene The Holocene, London: Sage, 2012, 21 (4), pp.597-614. ⟨10.1177/0959683610391316⟩ density currents floods Holocene palaeoclimate proglacial lake sediments snow-avalanches western Norway envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2012 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683610391316 2023-01-22T18:13:09Z International audience Two lacustrine sediment cores from Oldevatnet in western Norway have been studied in order to produce a record of floods, mass-wasting events and glacier fluctuations during the last 7300 years. River floods, density currents and snow-avalanches have deposited distinct 'event layers' at the lake floor throughout this time interval. In this study, a novel approach has been applied to distinguish event layers from the continuous background sedimentation, using Rb/Sr-ratios from X-Ray Fluorescence data. Grain-size distribution and the sedimentological parameters 'mean' and 'sorting' were used to further infer the depositional processes behind each layer. Our data suggest a record dominated by snow-avalanches, with the largest activity occurring during the 'Little Ice Age' (LIA). This increase in snow-avalanche activity observed during the LIA was probably caused by a combination of generally increasing winter precipitation and the advance of local glaciers towards the steep valley sides. Several fluctuations in snow-avalanche activity are also recognized prior to the LIA. Proxies of glacial activity from the background sediments indicate a similar development as earlier palaeoclimatic reconstructions from the area. It differs from previous reconstructions, however, by suggesting a lower glacial activity in the period from 2200 to 1000 cal. yr BP. Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Unknown Norway The Holocene 21 4 597 614 |
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International audience Two lacustrine sediment cores from Oldevatnet in western Norway have been studied in order to produce a record of floods, mass-wasting events and glacier fluctuations during the last 7300 years. River floods, density currents and snow-avalanches have deposited distinct 'event layers' at the lake floor throughout this time interval. In this study, a novel approach has been applied to distinguish event layers from the continuous background sedimentation, using Rb/Sr-ratios from X-Ray Fluorescence data. Grain-size distribution and the sedimentological parameters 'mean' and 'sorting' were used to further infer the depositional processes behind each layer. Our data suggest a record dominated by snow-avalanches, with the largest activity occurring during the 'Little Ice Age' (LIA). This increase in snow-avalanche activity observed during the LIA was probably caused by a combination of generally increasing winter precipitation and the advance of local glaciers towards the steep valley sides. Several fluctuations in snow-avalanche activity are also recognized prior to the LIA. Proxies of glacial activity from the background sediments indicate a similar development as earlier palaeoclimatic reconstructions from the area. It differs from previous reconstructions, however, by suggesting a lower glacial activity in the period from 2200 to 1000 cal. yr BP. |
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Department of Earth Science Bergen (UiB) University of Bergen (UiB) Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut Forel and Department of Geology and Paleontology University of Geneva Switzerland |
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A Holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway |
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A Holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway |
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A Holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway |
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A Holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway |
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A Holocene record of snow-avalanche and flood activity reconstructed from a lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Oldevatnet, western Norway |
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