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The preboreal climate reversal and a subsequent solar-forced climate shift

  • J. van der Plicht
  • , B. van Geel
  • , S.J.P. Bohncke
  • , J.A.A. Bos
  • , M. Blaauw
  • , A.O.M. Speranza
  • , R. Muscheler
  • , S. Björck

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    Abstract

    Accurate chronologies are essential for linking palaeoclimate archives. Carbon-14 wiggle-match dating was used to produce an accurate chronology for part of an early Holocene peat sequence from the Borchert (The Netherlands). Following the Younger Dryas-Preboreal transition, two climatic shifts could be inferred. Around 11 400 cal. yr BP the expansion of birch (Betula) forest was interrupted by a dry continental phase with dominantly open grassland vegetation, coeval with the PBO (Preboreal Oscillation), as observed in the GRIP ice core. At 11 250 cal. yr BP a sudden shift to a humid climate occurred. This second change appears to be contemporaneous with: (i) a sharp increase of atmospheric
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)263-269
    JournalJQS : Journal of Quaternary Science
    Volume19
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

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