The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue”
International audience Urmia Lake in NW Iran was the world’s second largest hypersaline lake until three decades ago, when it began to lose ~ 90% of its surface area due to dwindling water input and enhanced evaporation. To help discern the role of natural vs anthropogenic factors in the rapid demis...
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ftunivavignon:oai:HAL:hal-04204286v1 2024-05-19T07:45:05+00:00 The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue” Sharifi, Arash Djamali, Morteza Peterson, Larry Swart, Peter Ávila, María Guadalupe Pulido Esfahaninejad, Mojgan de Beaulieu, Jacques-Louis Lahijani, Hamid Pourmand, Ali Neptune Isotope Laboratory (NIL), Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149-1098, USA Department of Marine Geosciences, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149-1098, USA Analytic-Isobar Science, Research and Development Department (BETA) Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE) Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratorio de Palinología, Instituto de Botánica, Departamento de Botánica y Zoología, Universidad de Guadalajara, Camino Ramón Padilla 2100, Las Agujas, Nextipac, C.P. 45200 Zapopan, Jalisco, México Laboratorio Nacional de Identificación y Caracterización Vegetal (LaniVeg-CONACYT), Departamento de Botánica y Zoología, Universidad de Guadalajara, Camino Ramón Padilla 2100, Las Agujas, Nextipac, C.P. 45200 Zapopan, Jalisco, México Nickel District Conservation Authority (NDCA), 401-199 Larch Street, Sudbury, ON P3E 5P9, Canada Marine Geology Division, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), P.O. Box, Tehran 14155-4781, Iran 2023-08-29 https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286 https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286/document https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286/file/Sharifi%20et%20al-2023.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x en eng HAL CCSD Springer Verlag info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x hal-04204286 https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286 https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286/document https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286/file/Sharifi%20et%20al-2023.pdf doi:10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1436-3798 EISSN: 1436-378X Regional Environmental Change https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286 Regional Environmental Change, 2023, 23 (4), pp.121. ⟨10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x⟩ Urmia Lake Hypersaline Lake Holocene Anthropocene Paleorainfall Human impact Iran paleoclimate Medieval Warm Period Little Ice Age [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftunivavignon https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x 2024-05-01T23:49:31Z International audience Urmia Lake in NW Iran was the world’s second largest hypersaline lake until three decades ago, when it began to lose ~ 90% of its surface area due to dwindling water input and enhanced evaporation. To help discern the role of natural vs anthropogenic factors in the rapid demise of Urmia Lake, we present a high-resolution, multi-proxy reconstruction of climate, and hydrological variability from the lake’s sediments. We identify several episodes of wet and dry conditions over the past 11,300 years, and an atmospheric teleconnection between the climate of the interior of West Asia and the North Atlantic region. Estimates of mean annual precipitation based on chemical weathering indices range between 174 and 401 mm year−1 during the Holocene. A combination of geochemical proxies, pollen reconstruction, and the absence of any evaporite horizons throughout the Holocene period point to the prevailing role of human impact on the current vanishing of Urmia Lake Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse: HAL Regional Environmental Change 23 4 |
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International audience Urmia Lake in NW Iran was the world’s second largest hypersaline lake until three decades ago, when it began to lose ~ 90% of its surface area due to dwindling water input and enhanced evaporation. To help discern the role of natural vs anthropogenic factors in the rapid demise of Urmia Lake, we present a high-resolution, multi-proxy reconstruction of climate, and hydrological variability from the lake’s sediments. We identify several episodes of wet and dry conditions over the past 11,300 years, and an atmospheric teleconnection between the climate of the interior of West Asia and the North Atlantic region. Estimates of mean annual precipitation based on chemical weathering indices range between 174 and 401 mm year−1 during the Holocene. A combination of geochemical proxies, pollen reconstruction, and the absence of any evaporite horizons throughout the Holocene period point to the prevailing role of human impact on the current vanishing of Urmia Lake |
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Neptune Isotope Laboratory (NIL), Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149-1098, USA Department of Marine Geosciences, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149-1098, USA Analytic-Isobar Science, Research and Development Department (BETA) Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE) Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratorio de Palinología, Instituto de Botánica, Departamento de Botánica y Zoología, Universidad de Guadalajara, Camino Ramón Padilla 2100, Las Agujas, Nextipac, C.P. 45200 Zapopan, Jalisco, México Laboratorio Nacional de Identificación y Caracterización Vegetal (LaniVeg-CONACYT), Departamento de Botánica y Zoología, Universidad de Guadalajara, Camino Ramón Padilla 2100, Las Agujas, Nextipac, C.P. 45200 Zapopan, Jalisco, México Nickel District Conservation Authority (NDCA), 401-199 Larch Street, Sudbury, ON P3E 5P9, Canada Marine Geology Division, Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS), P.O. Box, Tehran 14155-4781, Iran |
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The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue” |
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The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue” |
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The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue” |
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ISSN: 1436-3798 EISSN: 1436-378X Regional Environmental Change https://amu.hal.science/hal-04204286 Regional Environmental Change, 2023, 23 (4), pp.121. ⟨10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x⟩ |
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