Alex Lombino
Climate reconstruction from paired oxygen-isotope analyses of chironomid larval head capsules and endogenic carbonate (Hawes Water, UK) - Potential and problems
Lombino, Alex; Atkinson, Tim; Brooks, Stephen J.; Gröcke, Darren R.; Holmes, Jonathan; Jones, Vivienne J.; Marshall, Jim D.; Nierop, Klaas G.J.; Thomas, Zoë
Authors
Tim Atkinson
Stephen J. Brooks
Professor Darren Grocke d.r.grocke@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Jonathan Holmes
Vivienne J. Jones
Jim D. Marshall
Klaas G.J. Nierop
Zoë Thomas
Abstract
Temperature and the oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of meteoric water are both important palaeoclimatic variables, but separating their influences on proxies such as the δ18O of lake carbonates is often problematic. The large temperature variations that are known to have occurred in the northern mid-latitudes during the Late Glacial make this interval an excellent test for a novel approach that combines oxygen-isotope analyses of chironomid larval head capsules with co-occurring endogenic carbonate. We apply this approach to a Late Glacial lake sediment sequence from Hawes Water (NW England). Oxygen-isotope values in chironomid head capsules show marked variations during the Late Glacial that are similar to the oxygen isotope record from endogenic carbonate. However, summer temperature reconstructions based on the paired isotope values and fractionation between chironomids and calcite yield values between −20 and −4 °C, which are unrealistic and far lower than reconstructions based on chironomid assemblages at the same site. The composition of a limited number of samples of fossil chironomid larval head capsules determined using Pyrolysis gas-chromatography mass spectrometry indicates the presence of aliphatic geopolymers, suggesting that diagenetic alteration of the head capsules has systematically biased the isotope-derived temperature estimates. However, a similar trend in the isotope records of the two sources suggests that a palaeoclimate signal is still preserved.
Citation
Lombino, A., Atkinson, T., Brooks, S. J., Gröcke, D. R., Holmes, J., Jones, V. J., Marshall, J. D., Nierop, K. G., & Thomas, Z. (2021). Climate reconstruction from paired oxygen-isotope analyses of chironomid larval head capsules and endogenic carbonate (Hawes Water, UK) - Potential and problems. Quaternary Science Reviews, 270, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107160
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 21, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 2, 2021 |
Publication Date | Oct 15, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Dec 17, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 2, 2022 |
Journal | Quaternary Science Reviews |
Print ISSN | 0277-3791 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 270 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107160 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1220232 |
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