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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.014
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A multi-proxy stalagmite record from northwestern Namibia of regional drying with increasing global-scale warmth over the last 47 kyr: The interplay of a globally shifting ITCZ with regional currents, winds, and rainfall
作者: Railsback L.B.; Brook G.A.; Liang F.; Marais E.; Cheng H.; Edwards R.L.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2016
卷: 461
起始页码: 109
结束页码: 121
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Holocene ; Namibia ; Paleoclimate ; Pleistocene ; Savanna ; Stalagmite
英文摘要: Stalagmite Orum-1 from a cave near Orumana in northwestern Namibia provides a multi-proxy record of regional drying with increasing global-scale warmth over the last 47 kyr, in a region with few long well-dated location-specific paleoclimate records. Data from Stalagmite Orum-1 include carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratios, proportions of aragonite and calcite, pronouncedly differing petrographic fabrics, positions of layer-bounding surfaces, variation in layer-specific width, and changes in layer thickness, all of which combine to support change from wetter to drier conditions. Combined with fourteen U-Th ages, they suggest that climate was wetter in northwestern Namibia during globally cold MIS 3 than it is today, and with more grass than is present today. The climate at Orumana became drier during the deglacial transition after the Last Glacial Maximum, but carbon isotope data indicate that C4 grasses persisted. In the Holocene, even greater aridity led to a reduction in grass cover and to the present C3-dominated vegetation. Hiatuses in Stalagmite Orum-1 suggest even drier conditions during the Bølling-Allerød and during the early Holocene thermal maximum. Wetter conditions at Orumana during glacial times may have resulted from movement of the Intertropical Convergence Zone southward, in a shift that was significant west of longitude 13°E but perhaps less significant east of that line. It may have been accompanied by a lesser southward shift of the Angola-Benguela Front at sea and/or the Inter-Ocean Convergence Zone on land, leading to increased rainfall in northern Namibia (but perhaps not farther south). Extrapolation from the present to warmer conditions in the next century would suggest that further drying in northern Namibia and southern Angola may occur. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/68221
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作者单位: Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States; Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States; Department of Geography, Western Illinois University, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL, United States; Entomology Centre, National Museum of Namibia, P.O. Box 1203, Windhoek, Namibia; College of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China; Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

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Railsback L.B.,Brook G.A.,Liang F.,et al. A multi-proxy stalagmite record from northwestern Namibia of regional drying with increasing global-scale warmth over the last 47 kyr: The interplay of a globally shifting ITCZ with regional currents, winds, and rainfall[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2016-01-01,461
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