1. Delayed Western Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) ventilation in response to the onset of a Mid-Holocene climate oscillation.
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Czymzik, Markus, Dellwig, Olaf, Muscheler, Raimund, Roeser, Patricia, Brauer, Achim, Kaiser, Jérôme, Christl, Marcus, and Arz, Helge W.
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VENTILATION , *OSCILLATIONS , *LAKE sediments , *MINE ventilation , *SEA level , *MOLYBDENUM - Abstract
The marine-terrestrial Baltic ecosystem is sensitive to a range of environmental forcing and thresholds. Multi-archive investigations of its evolution require a precise synchronization of the considered archives. Here, we apply globally common cosmogenic radionuclide production rate variations to synchronize 10Be records from brackish Western Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) and terrestrial lake Tiefer See (NE Germany) sediments to the atmospheric 14C time-scale and investigate phase-relationships in proxy responses in the southern Baltic realm associated with the onset of a centennial Mid-Holocene climate oscillation ∼5800 a BP. Based on paired molybdenum and titanium records, we identify a 98 ± 81-year delay in Western Gotland Basin ventilation, compared to the terrestrial response at the onset of the recorded Mid-Holocene climate oscillation. Most plausible mechanism for this delay is strengthened stratification in response to enhanced freshwater input during the first decades of the oscillation. • 10Be used for synchronizing Baltic Sea and terrestrial lake sediment records. • Synchronous southern Baltic sediment records of environmental variability. • Subcentennial delay in Western Gotland Basin ventilation during the Mid-Holocene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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