Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas
The Laacher See eruption (LSE) in Germany ranks among Europe’s largest volcanic events of the Upper Pleistocene (1,2). Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an important isochron for the synchronization of proxy archives at the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition (3), uncertainty in th...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:159966 2023-08-20T04:06:52+02:00 Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas Reinig, Frederick Wacker, Lukas Jöris, Olaf Oppenheimer, Clive Guidobaldi, Giulia Nievergelt, Daniel Adolphi, Florian Cherubini, Paolo Engels, Stefan Esper, Jan Land, Alexander Lane, Christine Pfanz, Hardy Remmele, Sabine Sigl, Michael Sookdeo, Adam Büntgen, Ulf 2021-06-30 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/159966/1/Reinig_2021_Nature.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/159966/2/Reinig_2021_Nature_accepted.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/159966/ eng eng Springer Nature https://boris.unibe.ch/159966/ info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Reinig, Frederick; Wacker, Lukas; Jöris, Olaf; Oppenheimer, Clive; Guidobaldi, Giulia; Nievergelt, Daniel; Adolphi, Florian; Cherubini, Paolo; Engels, Stefan; Esper, Jan; Land, Alexander; Lane, Christine; Pfanz, Hardy; Remmele, Sabine; Sigl, Michael; Sookdeo, Adam; Büntgen, Ulf (2021). Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas. Nature, 595(7865), pp. 66-69. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x> 530 Physics 570 Life sciences biology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2021 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x 2023-07-31T22:09:00Z The Laacher See eruption (LSE) in Germany ranks among Europe’s largest volcanic events of the Upper Pleistocene (1,2). Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an important isochron for the synchronization of proxy archives at the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition (3), uncertainty in the age of the eruption has prevailed (4). Here we present dendrochronological and radiocarbon measurements of subfossil trees that were buried by pyroclastic deposits that firmly date the LSE to 13,006 ± 9 calibrated years before present (bp; taken as ad 1950), which is more than a century earlier than previously accepted. The revised age of the LSE necessarily shifts the chronology of European varved lakes (5,6) relative to the Greenland ice core record, thereby dating the onset of the Younger Dryas to 12,807 ± 12 calibrated years bp, which is around 130 years earlier than thought. Our results synchronize the onset of the Younger Dryas across the North Atlantic–European sector, preclude a direct link between the LSE and Greenland Stadial-1 cooling (7), and suggest a large-scale common mechanism of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under warming conditions (8–10). Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Greenland ice core ice core North Atlantic BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Greenland Nature 595 7865 66 69 |
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530 Physics 570 Life sciences biology Reinig, Frederick Wacker, Lukas Jöris, Olaf Oppenheimer, Clive Guidobaldi, Giulia Nievergelt, Daniel Adolphi, Florian Cherubini, Paolo Engels, Stefan Esper, Jan Land, Alexander Lane, Christine Pfanz, Hardy Remmele, Sabine Sigl, Michael Sookdeo, Adam Büntgen, Ulf Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas |
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The Laacher See eruption (LSE) in Germany ranks among Europe’s largest volcanic events of the Upper Pleistocene (1,2). Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an important isochron for the synchronization of proxy archives at the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition (3), uncertainty in the age of the eruption has prevailed (4). Here we present dendrochronological and radiocarbon measurements of subfossil trees that were buried by pyroclastic deposits that firmly date the LSE to 13,006 ± 9 calibrated years before present (bp; taken as ad 1950), which is more than a century earlier than previously accepted. The revised age of the LSE necessarily shifts the chronology of European varved lakes (5,6) relative to the Greenland ice core record, thereby dating the onset of the Younger Dryas to 12,807 ± 12 calibrated years bp, which is around 130 years earlier than thought. Our results synchronize the onset of the Younger Dryas across the North Atlantic–European sector, preclude a direct link between the LSE and Greenland Stadial-1 cooling (7), and suggest a large-scale common mechanism of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under warming conditions (8–10). |
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Reinig, Frederick Wacker, Lukas Jöris, Olaf Oppenheimer, Clive Guidobaldi, Giulia Nievergelt, Daniel Adolphi, Florian Cherubini, Paolo Engels, Stefan Esper, Jan Land, Alexander Lane, Christine Pfanz, Hardy Remmele, Sabine Sigl, Michael Sookdeo, Adam Büntgen, Ulf |
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Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas |
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Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas |
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Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas |
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Reinig, Frederick; Wacker, Lukas; Jöris, Olaf; Oppenheimer, Clive; Guidobaldi, Giulia; Nievergelt, Daniel; Adolphi, Florian; Cherubini, Paolo; Engels, Stefan; Esper, Jan; Land, Alexander; Lane, Christine; Pfanz, Hardy; Remmele, Sabine; Sigl, Michael; Sookdeo, Adam; Büntgen, Ulf (2021). Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas. Nature, 595(7865), pp. 66-69. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x> |
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