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Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk
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posted on 2018-10-09, 12:41 authored by Katie Loakes, David RyvesDavid Ryves, Henry F. Lamb, Frank Schabitz, Michael Dee, J.J. Tyler, Keely Mills, Suzanne McGowanMulti-proxy analyses of an 8 m sediment core from Lake Hayk, a closed, freshwater lake in
the north-central highlands of Ethiopia, provide a record of changing lake level and inferred
regional climatic change for the last 15.6 cal ka years. Between ca. 15.6-15.2 cal ka BP, a
lowstand was synchronous with Heinrich Event 1 and an intense drought across Eastern Africa. At ca. 15.2 cal ka BP a lake began to develop at the core site in response to wetter conditions, at the onset of the African Humid Period (AHP). However, in contrast to other lakes in eastern Africa, Hayk lake level fell around ca. 14.8 cal ka BP, indicating a climate shift towards aridity. The lake began filling again at ca. 12.3 cal ka BP and reached maximum water depth between ca. 12.0-10.0 cal ka BP. Lake level declined slowly during the Holocene, culminating in the termination of the AHP at Hayk between ca. 5.2-4.6 cal ka BP. In the late Holocene, ca. 2.2-1.3 cal ka BP, Lake Hayk was again deep and fresh with some evidence of short-term lake level variability. The palaeo-record from Lake Hayk indicates that while it experienced, to a broad degree, the same glacial-interglacial dynamics and sub-millennial shifts in climate found in other palaeolimnological records from eastern Africa, there are offsets in timing and rate of response. These differences reflect chronological discrepancies between records, as well as the varying climate sensitivities and site-specific factors of individual lake basins. This record highlights the different responses by lakes in a climatically vulnerable area of Ethiopia.
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School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Quaternary Science ReviewsVolume
202Pages
166-181Citation
LOAKES, K. ... et al., 2018. Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, pp.166-181.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.005Acceptance date
2018-09-04Publication date
2018-10-16Copyright date
2018ISSN
1873-457XPublisher version
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- en