Synchronous or Not? The Timing of the Younger Dryas and Greenland Stadial-1 Reviewed Using Tephrochronology

Quaternary

Dan Hammarlund¹  Simon A. Larsson²  A. Britta K. Sannel²  Malin E. Kylander³ 

[1]Department of Geology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden

[2]Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

[3]The Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

关键词: palaeoclimate;    tephrostratigraphy;    LGIT;    Scandinavia;    XRF;    Hässeldalen Tephra;   

DOI  :  10.3390/quat5020019

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The exact spatial and temporal behaviour of rapid climate shifts during the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition are still not entirely understood. In order to investigate these events, it is necessary to have detailed palaeoenvironmental reconstructions at geographically spread study sites combined with reliable correlations between them. Tephrochronology, i.e., using volcanic ash deposits in geological archives as a dating and correlation tool, offers opportunities to examine the timing of events across wider regional scales. This study aims to review the posited asynchrony of the Younger Dryas stadial in comparison with Greenland Stadial-1 by correlating new proxy data from southernmost Sweden to previous palaeoclimate reconstructions in Europe based on the presence of the Hässeldalen Tephra, the Vedde Ash, and the Laacher See Tephra. μ-XRF core-scanning data were projected using a recently published age–depth model based on these tephras and several radiocarbon dates, and compared to previous findings, including by adapting previous chronologies to the recently proposed earlier date of the Laacher See Tephra (13,006 ± 9 cal. a BP). Although the results to some extent support the idea of a more synchronous Younger Dryas event than previously assumed, this issue requires further high-resolution proxy studies to overcome limitations of temporal precision.

【 授权许可】

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