Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro
Multi-proxy analysis of a well-dated 25,000-year (25 ka) lake-sediment sequence from Lake Challa, on the eastern flank of Mt Kilimanjaro, reveal the climatic controls which govern both the lake’s palaeohydrology and the climate-proxy record contained in the mountain’s receding ice cap. The oxygen-is...
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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:4093136 2023-06-11T04:12:38+02:00 Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro Barker, Philip A Hurrell, Elizabeth R Leng, Melanie J Wolff, Christian Cocquyt, Christine Sloane, Hilary J Verschuren, Dirk 2011 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4093136 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4093136 https://doi.org/10.1130/G32419.1 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4093136/file/4093272 eng eng https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4093136 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4093136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G32419.1 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4093136/file/4093272 No license (in copyright) info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess GEOLOGY ISSN: 0091-7613 Earth and Environmental Sciences ICE LAKES AFRICA PRECIPITATION FLUCTUATIONS DROUGHT GLACIER MONSOON HOLOCENE DIATOM SILICA journalArticle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2011 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.1130/G32419.1 2023-05-10T22:34:38Z Multi-proxy analysis of a well-dated 25,000-year (25 ka) lake-sediment sequence from Lake Challa, on the eastern flank of Mt Kilimanjaro, reveal the climatic controls which govern both the lake’s palaeohydrology and the climate-proxy record contained in the mountain’s receding ice cap. The oxygen-isotope record extracted from diatom silica (d18Odiatom) in Lake Challa sediments captured dry conditions during the last glacial period and a wet late-glacial transition to the Holocene interrupted by Younger Dryas drought. Further, it faithfully traced gradual weakening of the southeastern monsoon during the Holocene. Overall, d18Odiatom matches the branched isoprenoid tetraether (BIT) index of rainfall-induced soil run-off, except during 25–22 ka BP and the last 5 ka when insolation forcing due to orbital precession enhanced the northeastern monsoon. This pattern arises because during these two periods, a weakened southeastern monsoon reduced the amount of rainfall during the long rain season and enhanced the opposing effect of evaporation intensity and/or length of the austral winter dry season. Importantly, our lake-based reconstruction of moisture-balance seasonality in equatorial East Africa also helps understand the oxygen-isotope record contained in Mt. Kilimanjaro ice. Negative correlation between ice-core d18O and Lake Challa d18Odiatom implies that temperature, not moisture balance, is the primary climate control on the long-term trend in ice-core d18O. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice cap ice core Ghent University Academic Bibliography Austral Ice Lakes ENVELOPE(-131.345,-131.345,60.413,60.413) Geology 39 12 1111 1114 |
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Earth and Environmental Sciences ICE LAKES AFRICA PRECIPITATION FLUCTUATIONS DROUGHT GLACIER MONSOON HOLOCENE DIATOM SILICA Barker, Philip A Hurrell, Elizabeth R Leng, Melanie J Wolff, Christian Cocquyt, Christine Sloane, Hilary J Verschuren, Dirk Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Multi-proxy analysis of a well-dated 25,000-year (25 ka) lake-sediment sequence from Lake Challa, on the eastern flank of Mt Kilimanjaro, reveal the climatic controls which govern both the lake’s palaeohydrology and the climate-proxy record contained in the mountain’s receding ice cap. The oxygen-isotope record extracted from diatom silica (d18Odiatom) in Lake Challa sediments captured dry conditions during the last glacial period and a wet late-glacial transition to the Holocene interrupted by Younger Dryas drought. Further, it faithfully traced gradual weakening of the southeastern monsoon during the Holocene. Overall, d18Odiatom matches the branched isoprenoid tetraether (BIT) index of rainfall-induced soil run-off, except during 25–22 ka BP and the last 5 ka when insolation forcing due to orbital precession enhanced the northeastern monsoon. This pattern arises because during these two periods, a weakened southeastern monsoon reduced the amount of rainfall during the long rain season and enhanced the opposing effect of evaporation intensity and/or length of the austral winter dry season. Importantly, our lake-based reconstruction of moisture-balance seasonality in equatorial East Africa also helps understand the oxygen-isotope record contained in Mt. Kilimanjaro ice. Negative correlation between ice-core d18O and Lake Challa d18Odiatom implies that temperature, not moisture balance, is the primary climate control on the long-term trend in ice-core d18O. |
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Barker, Philip A Hurrell, Elizabeth R Leng, Melanie J Wolff, Christian Cocquyt, Christine Sloane, Hilary J Verschuren, Dirk |
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Barker, Philip A Hurrell, Elizabeth R Leng, Melanie J Wolff, Christian Cocquyt, Christine Sloane, Hilary J Verschuren, Dirk |
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Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro |
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seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from mount kilimanjaro |
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2011 |
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https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4093136 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4093136 https://doi.org/10.1130/G32419.1 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4093136/file/4093272 |
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