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| Titel |
Decadally resolved Lateglacial radiocarbon evidence from New Zealand kauri |
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Alan Hogg, John Southon, Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Pavla Fenwick, Gretel Boswijk, Ulf Büntgen, Michael Friedrich, Gerhard Helle, Konrad Hughen, Richard Jones, Bernd Kromer, Alexandra Noronha, Frederick Reinig, Linda Reynard, Richard Staff, Lukas Wacker |
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EGU General Assembly 2017
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Artikel
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en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
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250139609
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-2884.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT; 15,000 - 11,000 cal BP) was characterised by complex spatiotemporal patterns of climate change, with numerous studies requiring accurate chronological control to decipher leads from lags in global palaeoclimatic, -environmental and archaeological records. However, close scrutiny of the few available tree-ring chronologies and radiocarbon-dated sequences composing the IntCal13 radiocarbon (14C) calibration curve, indicates significant weakness in 14C calibration across key periods of the LGIT. Here, we present a decadally-resolved atmospheric 14C record derived from New Zealand kauri spanning Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1; ~12,900 – 11,650 cal BP). Two floating kauri 14C time series, curve-matched to IntCal13, serve as a radiocarbon backbone through GS-1. Floating Northern Hemisphere (NH) 14C datasets are matched against the new kauri data, forming a robust NH 14C time series to ~14,200 cal BP. Our results show that IntCal13 is questionable from ~12,200 - 11,900 cal BP and the ~10,400 BP 14C plateau is approximately five decades too short. By precisely aligning Southern and Northern Hemisphere tree-ring 14C records with marine 14C sequences, we document two relatively short periods of North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapse during GS-1. Hence, sustained North Atlantic cooling across GS-1 was not driven by a prolonged AMOC reduction but was probably due to an equatorward migration of the Polar Front. |
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