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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.02.030
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A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age
作者: Sletten H.R.; Railsback L.B.; Liang F.; Brook G.A.; Marais E.; Hardt B.F.; Cheng H.; Edwards R.L.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2013
卷: 376
起始页码: 149
结束页码: 162
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Africa ; Holocene ; Namibia ; Paleoclimate ; Stalagmite
英文摘要: Stalagmite DP1, a speleothem 1.6. m in length from Dante Cave in northeastern Namibia, provides a paleoclimate record of a gradual transition from wetter to drier conditions from 4.6 to 3.3. ka. BP, a variable but pronounced dry period from 3.3 to 1.8. ka, and a wetter but variable period from 1.8. ka to the present. This record is based on 30. U/Th radiometric dates and their resulting calculated growth rates, and on C and O stable isotope data, relative proportions of aragonite and calcite in layers, measurements of stalagmite width along layers, and observation of petrographic surfaces suggestive of changes from drier to wetter conditions and vice versa. The stalagmite's first deposition, which seemingly followed conditions too wet for deposition, coincided with desiccation in the Sahara and the end of the African Humid Period there. Gradual drying continued and led to a sustained very dry period from 3322 ± 11 to 1786 ± 10. BP, a "2-3. ka. BP Dry Period". That dry period began and ended abruptly. The abrupt transition from drier to wetter conditions at 1.8. ka coincides with the beginning of the Iron Age in southern Africa, suggesting that wetter conditions facilitated migrations and/or changes in food production that may have contributed to a transition in human technologies and lifestyles. This transition is coeval with transitions to colder conditions in ice core records from Greenland and Antarctica. The DP1 record suggests considerable change over the past 1800. years, with at least three wet/dry cycles. The wettest conditions may have occurred relatively recently, between 230 and 100. BP (A.D. 1720 and 1850), so that early European explorers may have seen and/or heard reports of conditions among the wettest during the later Holocene in southern Africa. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/69774
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作者单位: Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-2501, United States; Department of Geography, Western Illinois University, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455, United States; Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-2502, United States; Entomology Centre, National Museum of Namibia, P.O. Box 1203, Windhoek, Namibia; Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN, 55455, United States; College of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China; Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States; US Geological Survey, Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 926A, Reston, VA 20192, United States

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Sletten H.R.,Railsback L.B.,Liang F.,et al. A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2013-01-01,376
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