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 Pleistocene1,2. Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an important isochron for the synchronization of proxy archives at the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition3, uncertainty in the...
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ftunivcam:oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/368946 2024-06-23T07:53:17+00:00 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 2021-07 Print-Electronic application/pdf https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/368946 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.108955 eng eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC Department of Geography http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x Nature https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/368946 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.108955 Publisher's own licence 37 Earth Sciences 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience 3705 Geology Article 2021 ftunivcam https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.108955 2024-06-04T23:55:34Z The Laacher See eruption (LSE) in Germany ranks among Europe's largest volcanic events of the Upper Pleistocene1,2. Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an important isochron for the synchronization of proxy archives at the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition3, uncertainty in the age of the eruption has prevailed4. 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 lakes5,6 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 cooling7, and suggest a large-scale common mechanism of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under warming conditions8-10. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Greenland ice core ice core North Atlantic Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository Greenland |
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37 Earth Sciences 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience 3705 Geology 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 Pleistocene1,2. Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an important isochron for the synchronization of proxy archives at the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition3, uncertainty in the age of the eruption has prevailed4. 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 lakes5,6 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 cooling7, and suggest a large-scale common mechanism of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under warming conditions8-10. |
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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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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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