NDLI: Variation in the moisture regime of northeastern interior Alaska and possible linkages to the Aleutian Low: inferences from a late-Holocene δ$^{18}$O record

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Author	Chipman, Melissa L. Clegg, Benjamin F. Hu, Feng Sheng
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Analyses of oxygen and carbon isotopes in bulk carbonate and Chara-stem encrustations, X-ray diffraction, and sediment composition from Keche Lake offer new information on climatic change over the past ~3,400 years in northeastern interior Alaska. The δ$^{18}$O and δD values of water samples from the lake and its inlet streams suggest that evaporation plays an important role in determining the isotopic composition of Keche Lake water at present. However, evaporative enrichment does not appear to be a major driver of the pronounced fluctuations in the bulk-carbonate δ$^{18}$O record on the basis of comparison with Chara-δ$^{18}$O values. The δ$^{18}$O values of bulk carbonate in the Keche Lake sediments vary by up to 10 ‰ over the past 3,400 years, with maximum values of −12 ‰ around 3,400 cal BP and between 2,100 and 1,500 cal BP. High δ$^{18}$O peaks are associated with sediments dominated by quartz, feldspar, and clay minerals suggesting the influence of detrital carbonate. Multi-millennial patterns of δ$^{18}$O variation at Keche Lake appear to be linked with changes in watershed and sediment-depositional processes, which may be driven by varying moisture abundance associated with the position of the Aleutian Low (AL). The increasing trend of carbonate δ$^{18}$O from 3,400 to ~2,100 cal BP probably reflects the increasing importance of a westerly AL, and the high frequency of δ$^{18}$O spikes ~2,100–1,500 cal BP may have resulted from the prevalence of a westerly AL position. Predominance of a westerly AL likely increased snowfall and winter temperature in the region. Such conditions would have promoted soil erosion and thermokarst activity during spring snowmelt, resulting in episodic large influxes of detrital carbonate to Keche Lake and elevating bulk-carbonate δ$^{18}$O. Over the past 1,500 years, bulk-carbonate δ$^{18}$O remained relatively high at Keche Lake but variation was much less pronounced than before. A broad δ$^{18}$O peak centered ~400 cal BP may be related to enhanced winter moisture during the Little Ice Age, although our chronology is inadequate for a rigorous assessment of this interpretation. This study contributes a new δ$^{18}$O record and offers additional information on past moisture-regime shifts associated with changing atmospheric-circulation patterns.
Starting Page	69
Ending Page	81
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09212728
Journal	Journal of Paleolimnology
Volume Number	48
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730417
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-03-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Alaska Holocene Paleoclimate Lake sediment Oxygen isotopes Aleutian Low Physical Geography Geology Freshwater & Marine Ecology Climate Change Sedimentology Paleontology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth-Surface Processes Aquatic Science

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