Tentative Correlation of Pollen Records of the Last Interglacial at Grande Pile and Ribains with Marine Isotope Stages

Kukla, George; Beaulieu, Jacques‐Louis de; Svobodova, Hélèna; Andrieu‐Ponel, Valérie; Thouveny, Nicolas; Stockhausen, Hagen

doi:10.1006/qres.2002.2340

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“…show an increased proportion of nonarboreal pollen. Together with high magnetic susceptibility, they indicate temporary expansion of open environments in the vicinity of the lake (Kukla et al, 2002b). Rapid replacement of mixed temperate forest by conifers in the upper part of the interglacial interval resembles the event at Grande Pile described by Woillard.…”

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“…In the best-studied European sequence of Eemian diatomaceous gyttja at La Grande Pile (Woillard, 1978;Guiot et al, 1989;Seret et al, 1992;de Beaulieu and Reille, 1992a;Pons et al, 1992;Kukla et al, 2002b), the forest episode was labeled the Lure interglacial (Seret et al, 1990). Here the closed forest, which shows the typical Eemian vegetational succession, was probably established before 126,000 yr B.P.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It also corresponds with much of the Eemian (s.l.) at Grande Pile and Ribains, France and off Portugal (Kukla et al, 1997(Kukla et al, , 2002bShackleton et al, 2002).…”

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The last interglacial, commonly understood as an interval with climate as warm or warmer than today, is represented by marine isotope stage (MIS) 5e, which is a proxy record of low global ice volume and high sea level. It is arbitrarily dated to begin at approximately 130,000 yr B.P. and end at 116,000 yr B.P. with the onset of the early glacial unit MIS 5d. The age of the stage is determined by correlation to uranium-thorium dates of raised coral reefs. The most detailed proxy record of interglacial climate is found in the Vostok ice core where the temperature reached current levels 132,000 yr ago and continued rising for another two millennia. Approximately 127,000 yr ago the Eemian mixed forests were established in Europe. They developed through a characteristic succession of tree species, probably surviving well into the early glacial stage in southern parts of Europe.

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“…Until now no continuous continental record extending from the present through the LI to the penultimate glacial had its own internal chronology to our knowledge. Thus timing and duration of the LI, as reflected in continental, marine, and ice-core records, and the phase relationships between these major earth-system components during marine oxygen isotope stage (MIS) 6-4, have been the subject of much debate (1,(5)(6)(7)(8)(9). Shackleton (9) first proposed correspondence between the LI and MIS 5e, whereas Woillard (10) subsequently demonstrated such apparent correspondence in a continental record.…”

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Evidence for last interglacial chronology and environmental change from Southern Europe

Brauer

Allen

Mingram

et al. 2007

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Establishing phase relationships between earth-system components during periods of rapid global change is vital to understanding the underlying processes. It requires records of each component with independent and accurate chronologies. Until now, no continental record extending from the present to the penultimate glacial had such a chronology to our knowledge. Here, we present such a record from the annually laminated sediments of Lago Grande di Monticchio, southern Italy. Using this record we determine the duration (17.70 ؎ 0.20 ka) and age of onset (127.20 ؎ 1.60 ka B.P.) of the last interglacial, as reflected by terrestrial ecosystems. This record also reveals that the transitions at the beginning and end of the interglacial spanned only Ϸ100 and 150 years, respectively. Comparison with records of other earthsystem components reveals complex leads and lags. During the penultimate deglaciation phase relationships are similar to those during the most recent deglaciation, peaks in Antarctic warming and atmospheric methane both leading Northern Hemisphere terrestrial warming. It is notable, however, that there is no evidence at Monticchio of a Younger Dryas-like oscillation during the penultimate deglaciation. Warming into the first major interstadial event after the last interglacial is characterized by markedly different phase relationships to those of the deglaciations, warming at Monticchio coinciding with Antarctic warming and leading the atmospheric methane increase. Diachroneity is seen at the end of the interglacial; several global proxies indicate progressive cooling after Ϸ115 ka B.P., whereas the main terrestrial response in the Mediterranean region is abrupt and occurs at 109.50 ؎ 1.40 ka B.P.Eemian ͉ phase relationships ͉ pollen ͉ varves R econstructing the phase relationships between major earthsystem components relies on precise, accurate, and independent chronologies. However, absolute dating of geological records beyond the range of radiocarbon (more than Ϸ50 ka B.P.) is problematic, and age estimates for records of the last interglacial (LI) commonly rely on indirect dating approaches (1-4), often either by tuning to the time scale of orbital variations (2) or ''wiggle-matching'' to another record and applying its chronology (3, 4). Until now no continuous continental record extending from the present through the LI to the penultimate glacial had its own internal chronology to our knowledge. Thus timing and duration of the LI, as reflected in continental, marine, and ice-core records, and the phase relationships between these major earth-system components during marine oxygen isotope stage (MIS) 6-4, have been the subject of much debate (1, 5-9). Shackleton (9) first proposed correspondence between the LI and MIS 5e, whereas Woillard (10) subsequently demonstrated such apparent correspondence in a continental record. More recently, however, pollen, alkenone, and ␦ 18 O analyses of marine cores from locations close to the Iberian peninsula have shown asynchrony between changes in terrestrial veg...

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“…not ratified) global chronostratigraphical unit (Turner, 2002a). There is a notion that what is recognised as the Eemian, has a different timing and duration in various places across northern and southern Europe (Kukla et al, 2002;Turner, 2002a;Tzedakis et al, 2003). Strictly speaking, if the Eemian is used as a chronostratigraphical unit, by definition it cannot be diachronic, while when used as a biostratigraphical zone it can be.…”

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The Blake Event recorded near the Eemian type locality – A diachronic onset of the Eemian in Europe

Sier

Peeters

Dekkers

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Quaternary Geochronology

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a b s t r a c tMultidisciplinary analysis including paleomagnetic, sedimentologic, sea-level change, luminescence dating and palynologic research was performed on a 25 m long orientated core taken at Rutten, close to Eemian key localities in the Netherlands. The main goal of our research was to test a possible delayed onset of temperate conditions in this region compared to Southern Europe, occurring within the Last Interglacial. The sediments revealed the presence of the paleomagnetic Blake Event in ca. 10 m of lowerdeltaic floodbasin sediments that contain a pollen record covering the Eemian. The position of the Blake Event in relation to the pollen stratigraphy concurs with the earlier studied Neumark Nord 2 site. Paleomagnetic correlation to core MD95-2042 off SW Iberia indicates ca. 5 kyr diachroneity between the pollen-based onset of temperate interglacial conditions between northern and southern Europe. The onset of the Eemian in north-western and central Europe (ca. 121.0 ka) post-dates the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition by ca. 10 kyr. In addition, the Rutten data provide evidence for a relatively long duration of the Blake Event of at least 8 kyr. The late onset of the temperate conditions that define the base of the Eemian, imply that NW Europe with the Eemian type area is not the most suited region to define the beginning of the Last Interglacial and Late Pleistocene for global chronostratigraphic use.

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Tentative Correlation of Pollen Records of the Last Interglacial at Grande Pile and Ribains with Marine Isotope Stages

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Evidence for last interglacial chronology and environmental change from Southern Europe

The Blake Event recorded near the Eemian type locality – A diachronic onset of the Eemian in Europe

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