Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene
The Romanian Carpathians are located at the confluence of three major atmospheric pressure fields: the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Siberian. Despite its importance for understanding past human impact and climate change, high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of Holocene hy...
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| author | Longman, J Ersek, V Veres, D Salzmann, U |
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| description | The Romanian Carpathians are located at the confluence of three major atmospheric pressure fields: the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Siberian. Despite its importance for understanding past human impact and climate change, high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of Holocene hydroclimate variability, and in particular records of extreme precipitation events in the area, are rare. Here we present a 7500-year-long high-resolution record of past climatic change and human impact recorded in a peatbog from the Southern Carpathians, integrating palynological, geochemical and sedimentological proxies. Natural climate fluctuations appear to be dominant until 4500 years before present (yr BP), followed by increasing importance of human impact. Sedimentological and geochemical analyses document regular minerogenic deposition within the bog, linked to periods of high precipitation. Such minerogenic depositional events began 4000 yr BP, with increased depositional rates during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), the Little Ice Age (LIA) and during periods of societal upheaval (e.g. the Roman conquest of Dacia). The timing of minerogenic events appears to indicate a teleconnection between major shifts in North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and hydroclimate variability in southeastern Europe, with increased minerogenic deposition correlating to low NAO index values. By linking the minerogenic deposition to precipitation variability, we state that this link persists throughout the mid-to-late Holocene. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:656f393e-9e33-49b8-bc49-fd7a3627d56e2022-03-26T18:25:26ZDetrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late HoloceneJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:656f393e-9e33-49b8-bc49-fd7a3627d56eEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2017Longman, JErsek, VVeres, DSalzmann, UThe Romanian Carpathians are located at the confluence of three major atmospheric pressure fields: the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Siberian. Despite its importance for understanding past human impact and climate change, high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of Holocene hydroclimate variability, and in particular records of extreme precipitation events in the area, are rare. Here we present a 7500-year-long high-resolution record of past climatic change and human impact recorded in a peatbog from the Southern Carpathians, integrating palynological, geochemical and sedimentological proxies. Natural climate fluctuations appear to be dominant until 4500 years before present (yr BP), followed by increasing importance of human impact. Sedimentological and geochemical analyses document regular minerogenic deposition within the bog, linked to periods of high precipitation. Such minerogenic depositional events began 4000 yr BP, with increased depositional rates during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), the Little Ice Age (LIA) and during periods of societal upheaval (e.g. the Roman conquest of Dacia). The timing of minerogenic events appears to indicate a teleconnection between major shifts in North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and hydroclimate variability in southeastern Europe, with increased minerogenic deposition correlating to low NAO index values. By linking the minerogenic deposition to precipitation variability, we state that this link persists throughout the mid-to-late Holocene. |
| spellingShingle | Longman, J Ersek, V Veres, D Salzmann, U Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene |
| title | Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene |
| title_full | Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene |
| title_fullStr | Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene |
| title_full_unstemmed | Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene |
| title_short | Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene |
| title_sort | detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the romanian carpathians during the mid to late holocene |
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