Assessing links between late Holocene climate change and paleolimnological development of Peña Lagoon using opal phytoliths, physical, and geochemical proxies

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Title

Assessing links between late Holocene climate change and paleolimnological development of Peña Lagoon using opal phytoliths, physical, and geochemical proxies

Subject

GEOQUIMICA
SEDIMENTOLOGIA
LAGUNA PEÑA
URUGUAY
BIBLIOGRAFIA NACIONAL QUIMICA
2013

Abstract

Opal phytolith, geochemical and sedimentological data from two cores taken in Peña Lagoon, a small water body on the Atlantic shore of Uruguay, are presented in this paper. The choice of this specific sampling location aimed to obtain high resolution records to infer late Holocene environmental and climatic changes in southeastern Uruguay, in order to improve previous models for early and middle Holocene. The combined record of two cores extends to 2500 14C BP, with a sedimentation rate ranging between 0.6 and 2 mm y−1. A multiproxy approach allowed the identification of changes in dynamics, particularly organic matter and sediment input variability from the watershed. With this information, differences in the amount and extent of environmental signals were evaluated and a comprehensive climate change model was generated, especially for the last 1500 years. Three main climatic events were distinguished. The oldest, which lasted until 700 AD, was characterized by temperate and humid conditions. The second extended until 1200 AD and warmer and wetter conditions were inferred, but also a colder and drier pulse was observed in between. This second event was assigned to the Warm Medieval Period (WMP). During the third event, assigned to the Little Ice Age (LIA), which extended until the present, a high variability in climate was observed, but also three dry/cold phases reaching their maxima by 1300, 1600 and 1900 AD were inferred.

Creator

Puerto, Laura del
Bracco, Roberto
Inda, Hugo
Gutiérrez, Ofelia
Panario, Daniel
García-Rodríguez, Felipe

Source

Quaternary International v. 287, 2013. -- p. 89-100

Publisher

Elsevier

Date

2013

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PDF

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Inglés

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Artículo

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.11.026

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Uruguay

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Puerto, Laura del et al., “Assessing links between late Holocene climate change and paleolimnological development of Peña Lagoon using opal phytoliths, physical, and geochemical proxies,” RIQUIM - Repositorio Institucional de la Facultad de Química - UdelaR, accessed November 17, 2025, https://riquim.fq.edu.uy/items/show/4745.