Implications for central Italy paleoclimate from 95,000 yr B.P. Until the early Holocene as evident from Frasassi Cave speleothems
- Author(s)
- Gerhard Kudielka, Miriam Bar-Matthews, M. Gilmour, Ari Ayalon, Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari
- Abstract
In this study, we present a composite d
18O and d
13C record obtained from four speleothems from the Grotta Grande del Vento Cave, located within the Frasassi karst system, northeastern Apennines of central Italy. The ages were determined by U-series analysis, employing thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS), and the composite isotopic profile covers most of the time period from ca. 95,000 yr B.P. until ca. 10,000 yr B.P., including the last part of marine isotope stage (MIS) 5, most of the last glacial (MIS 4–2), and the earliest Holocene (MIS 1), with a hiatus lasting from ca. 65,000 to ca. 55,000 yr B.P. We compared this record with other speleothem records from the Eastern Mediterranean, with caves from western Portugal, with two marine records from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea, and with the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice-core record. The Frasassi speleothem record provides further insight for a wider regional understanding of the paleoclimate record through the discrepancies and similarities between the northeastern Apennines of central Italy and the Western, Eastern, and northeastern Mediterranean regions.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Lithospheric Research
- External organisation(s)
- Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco, Vogtsstr. 3, Geological Survey of Israel (GSI), Open University, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM)
- Pages
- 429-445
- No. of pages
- 17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1130/2019.2542(24)
- Publication date
- 09-2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105105 Geochemistry
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/310bd3c0-717e-4b90-bb79-934cc62d6baf