Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave (Central Italy)

Title: Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave (Central Italy)
Creator: Zanchetta, G.; Drysdale, R. N.; Hellstrom, J. C.; Fallick, A. E.; Isola, I.; Gagan, M. K.; Pareschi, M. T.
Relation: Quaternary Science Reviews Vol. 26, Issue 3-4, p. 279-286
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.12.003
Publisher: Pergamon
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2007
Description: A stable isotope record from a stalagmite collected from Antro del Corchia cave (Apuan Alps, Central Italy), supported by 17 uranium-series ages, indicates enhanced regional rainfall between ca 8.9 and 7.3 kyr cal. BP at the time of sapropel S1 deposition. Within this phase, the highest rainfall occurred between 7.9 and 7.4 kyr cal. BP. Comparison with different marine and lake records, and in particular with the Soreq Cave record (Israel), suggests substantial in-phase occurrence of enhanced rainfall between the Western and Eastern Mediterranean basins. There is no convincing evidence for major climatic change at the time of the “8.2 kyr event”.
Subject: Western and Eastern Mediterranean rainfall; isotope record; stalagmite; Antro del Corchia cave (Apuan Alps, Central Italy); climatic change
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/33843
Identifier: uon:3317
Identifier: ISSN:0277-3791
Language: eng
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