Contrasting vegetation response during Heinrich stadials in Western Europe at the end of the Last Glacial period

• Main Authors: Fourcade, Tiffanie, Sánchez Goñi, María, F, Lesven, Jonathan, Lahaye, Christelle, Philippe, Anne
• Other Authors: Archéosciences Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC), Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC), Institut de recherche sur les forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), IRAMAT-Centre de recherche en physique appliquée à l’archéologie (IRAMAT-CRP2A), Institut de Recherches sur les Archéomatériaux (IRAMAT), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray (LMJL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Deep-sea cores; Marine and terrestrial records; Heinrich Stadials; Palynology; Western Europe; [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment; [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04234892

International audience Deep-sea and terrestrial records allow to document the amplitude, timing and duration of the oceanic and vegetation responses to orbital and millennial-scale changes, in particular during North Atlantic cooling events (Heinrich events, HEs) in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Period (~115- 27 ka).We propose a multiproxy study based on two deep-sea cores retrieved in the Bay of Biscay (MD04-2845) and the Gulf of Lion (MD99-2343) to reconstruct vegetation and climatic changes in southwestern and southeastern France during Heinrich stadials 4, 5 and 6. These records are well chronologically constrained by numerical dating (new IRSL ages for the MD04-2845 deep-sea core) and new age-depth models, based on Bayesian statistics and stratigraphic constrains using ChronoModel software and ArchaeoPhases R-package. The comparison of both deep-sea cores with other terrestrial and marine records from NE Atlantic and NW Mediterranean regions show different magnitudes in the semi-desert expansions following Heinrich Stadials (HS, 4, 5 and 6) in Western Europe. Although in southwestern France, the development of the semi-desert is more pronounced during HS6 compared to HS 4 and 5, in the southeast, this stadial is marked by forest development. These contrasted responses during these events appear to be the result of different intensities of the thermohaline circulation and local oceanic processes associated with the instability of the Laurentian ice sheet.