Glaciation in the Eastern Pyrenees between NGRIP/GRIP GS-9 and GS-2a stadials: 25,000 years of...
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Glaciation in the Eastern Pyrenees between NGRIP/GRIP GS-9 and GS-2a stadials: 25,000 years of palaeoenvironmental record in the
Valira Valleys (Principality of Andorra) Valentí Turu and Guy Jalut
Marcel Chevalier Earth Science Foundation, Ed. sociocultural La Llacuna, AD500 Andorra la Vella, Principality of Andorra. Corresponding author (E-mail: [email protected]
AMS 14C dating and δ13C Total carbon (bulk) from • Pure colluvial • Colluvial-alluvial mixture • Supraglacial-colluvial m. • Subglacial till • Gl-Fl over bedrock δ13C from vegetation average and can be used as a proxy
• No laminites has been dated (aquatic plants), only subaerial sediments except subglacial tills (mixture)
Glaciolacustrine geochemistry
• 232 stratigraphical descriptions • Basin analysis using sequence
stratigraphy (Turu et al., 2016). • Chronostratigraphic benchmark for
paleoenvironmental studies • Online database
• Depicting the paleolake alkalinity using 21 samples • Major elements (Al, Si, Ca, Ti, ..) • Proxys: Ca, Fe, Al, Ti • Al/Ti ratio as detrital proxy
La Massana paleolake
TURU. V., CALVET, M., BORDONAU J., GUNNELL, Y., DELMAS M., VILAPLANA J.M. & JALUT, G. (2016) Did Pyrenean glaciers dance to the beat of global climatic events? Evidence from the Wurmian sequence stratigraphy of an ice-dammed palaeolake depocentre in Andorra; HUGHES P.D. & WOODWARD J.C. (eds) Quaternary Glaciation in the Mediterranean Mountains. Geological Society, London, SP 433. DOI: 10.1144/SP433.6
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy based on the study of proglacial deltas
Arinsal tributary stratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy classification by identifying unconformity surfaces
Chronostratigraphy
TILL ---> TILL ---> TILL ---> TILL ---> TILL --->
Glacier front unstability is recorded on the basin (subglacial till sedimentation)
δ13C data
Rythmic trend & decreassing δ13C values in each one
Fast Fourier Transform
Wave length of 6.1 and 4.0 Kyrs are depicted
!13C Valira Nord FFT
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Ka
Magnitud d
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All data
Climate
Aride
Cold &
Moist
Moister
Warmer
Aridity
Cold and moist
Moister
Warmer conditions
Conclusions
• Five aridity cycles, one each 4 Ka (FFT) • Three Heinrich events, one each 6.1 Ka (FFT) • These climatic events may be independent but
their interference produce abrupt climatic shiftings between 17 and 36 Ka (19,000 yrs)
• For that reason He are barely recognizable
Thank you
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