Shallow depositional basins as potential archives of palaeoenvironmental changes in southwestern Greenland over the last 800 years

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ROMAN Matěj HUTŇAN CHATTOVÁ Barbora LEHEJČEK Jiří TEJNECKÝ Václav VONDRÁK Daniel LULÁKOVÁ Petra NĚMEČEK Karel HOUŠKA Jakub DRÁBEK Ondřej NÝVLT Daniel

Rok publikování 2021
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Boreas
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Přírodovědecká fakulta

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www https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12483
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12483
Klíčová slova palaeoenvironmental changes; southwestern Greenland
Popis The Arctic, one of the most sensitive components of the Earth's climate system, experienced pronounced climatic fluctuations during the Late Holocene. In order to obtain a detailed record of past environmental and climatic variability, sedimentary cores from two interconnected infilled depositional basins in the Kobbefjord area, southwestern Greenland, were retrieved and subjected to a multi-proxy investigation. The absolute chronostratigraphy was established through radiocarbon (C-14) and short-lived radioisotope (Pb-210, Cs-137) dating. We also analysed magnetic susceptibility, grain size, X-ray fluorescence element composition, total content of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur, biogenic silica and diatom assemblages. The palaeoenvironmental reconstruction presented from the upper basin records similar to 800 years of sedimentation in a former shallow Arctic lake/pond that was modulated by catchment processes and regional hydroclimate. The record is dominated by alternating periods of increased organic and clastic deposition, suggesting warmer/drier and colder/wetter climate, respectively. Comparison of our records with other proxy-based lacustrine, marine and glacier records and instrumental measurements from Greenland and the North Atlantic reveals common climatic trends, consistent with the inferred North Atlantic Oscillation pattern. Periods at similar to 800-600, similar to 320-220 and similar to 140-30 cal. a BP correspond to the main cold phases. The earliest climatic deterioration coincides with the demise of the nearby Norse Western Settlement. The most recent cold period represents the culmination of the Little Ice Age with the maximum Holocene advances of Greenland glaciers. Ameliorated conditions predominated at similar to 550-320 and similar to 220-140 cal. a BP. The evolution of both water bodies is concluded by transition into oligotrophic peat bogs after complete infilling of the basins at similar to 30 cal. a BP. Despite differences in proxy signals between the coring sites, this study endorses the usefulness of shallow lake/pond sediments from infilled basins for environmental reconstructions, as long as local depositional processes do not mask the external driving factors.
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