High-resolution chemostratigraphic record of late Pleistocene lake-level variability, Mono Lake, California

Zimmerman, Susan; Hemming, S. R.; Hemming, N. Gary; Tomascak, Paul B.; Pearl, Crystal

doi:10.1130/b30377.1

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“…Further, the variation of the leachable elements with Mono Lake levels is opposite that found in Owens Lake (Bischoff et al, 1997a,b), consistent with the observations made by Zimmerman et al (2006Zimmerman et al ( , 2011b for calcium carbonate. These results document important differences between these two lakes, discussed below.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…3). Leachable Li concentrations also show an excellent agreement with CaCO 3 concentrations throughout the Wilson Creek Formation, which has been previously demonstrated to follow lake level (Zimmerman et al, , 2011b. It also appears to document millennial timescale changes which are not explicitly documented in the much lower resolution lake level curve, but are seen in the CaCO 3 record (Benson et al, 1998;Zimmerman et al, 2006).…”

Section: Acid Leachable LI and Lake Levelsupporting

confidence: 55%

“…The precipitation of calcite forms the first chemical divide as the concentration factor increases. Calcite concentrations in Wilson Creek Formation sediments faithfully follow the changes in lake level based on physical stratigraphic evidence (Zimmerman et al, , 2011b.…”

Section: Expected Behavior Of Elements In Mono Lake Watermentioning

confidence: 98%

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Assessing Li and other leachable geochemical proxies for paleo-salinity in lake sediments from the Mono Basin, CA (USA)

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Zimmerman

Datta

et al. 2011

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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confidence: 85%

Section: Acid Leachable LI and Lake Levelsupporting

confidence: 55%

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Assessing Li and other leachable geochemical proxies for paleo-salinity in lake sediments from the Mono Basin, CA (USA)

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Zimmerman

Datta

et al. 2011

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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“…Indeed, at the glacial/interglacial time scale examined in the present study, broad precipitation trends suggested by lake levels and sediment accumulation rates, including those for Mono Lake (Benson et al, 1998;Davis, 1999;Zimmerman et al, 2011), correlate with the time-varying diffusivity values we derived from the transfer function that was based on temperature only. Data published in Benson et al (1998) show a significant increase in lake level and sediment accumulation for Mono Lake approximately 21 ka ago, which coincides with the higher κ values that were indicated by the substitution method between 21 and 25 ka ago.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…For example in the western USA, pollen records indicate changes in vegetation communities (Tausch et al, 1993;Woolfenden, 1996;Mensing, 2001;Minnich, 2007) and lake sediment cores show variable sedimentation rates (Benson et al, 1997;Smith and Bischoff, 1997;Bischoff and Cummins, 2001;Zimmerman et al, 2011;Street et al, 2012Reheis et al, 2014. Such records provide relative and indirect measures of the effect of past climate on degradation of landform surfaces.…”

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Climate and hillslope degradation vary in concert; 85 ka to present, eastern Sierra Nevada, CA, USA

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Putkonen

2016

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The effects of recent uplift and volcanism on deposition in Mono Lake, California, from seismic‐reflection (CHIRP) profiles

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About 150 km of high-resolution, seismic reflection (Compressed High-Intensity Radar Pulse) profiles (approximately 20 m penetration) were collected in Mono Lake in order to define the uppermost sedimentary architecture of the basin, which has been heavily impacted by recent volcanic, tectonic, and climatic processes. The study also provides an important background for ongoing efforts to obtain paleoenvironmental records from sediment cores in the lake. The history of four seismic-stratigraphic units in the upper 20 m of section are inferred from the data, and the interpretations are generally consistent with previous interpretations of lake history for the past 2000 years, including a major lowstand at 1941 m. No shorelines below the previously documented major lowstand at 1941 m were found. A relatively steep slope segment, whose toe is at about 1918 m, and which occurs on the southern and western margins of the deep basin of the lake, is interpreted as the relict foreset slope of deposition from prograding western tributaries. This topography is unconformably overlain by a unit of interbedded tephra and lake sediments of variable lithology, which contains tephra of the North Mono (600-625 cal yr BP) eruption in its upper part. The tephra-rich unit is overlain by a mostly massive mudflow deposit that is locally more than 18 m thick and that is distributed in a radial pattern around Paoha Island. The evidence suggests that within the past few hundred years, rapid uplift of Paoha Island through thick, preexisting lake deposits led to widespread slope failures, which created a terrain of disrupted, intact blocks near the island, and a thick, fluid mudflow beyond. As is common in mudflows, the mudflow moved up the depositional slope of the lake floor, terminating against the preexisting slopes, likely in multiple surges. Since about 1700 Common Era, fine-grained, well-laminated sediments have accumulated in the deep parts of the lake at anomalously rapid rates, probably driven by continued rapid, small-scale shedding of sediment from Paoha Island.

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High-resolution chemostratigraphic record of late Pleistocene lake-level variability, Mono Lake, California

Cited by 34 publications

References 56 publications

Assessing Li and other leachable geochemical proxies for paleo-salinity in lake sediments from the Mono Basin, CA (USA)

Assessing Li and other leachable geochemical proxies for paleo-salinity in lake sediments from the Mono Basin, CA (USA)

Climate and hillslope degradation vary in concert; 85 ka to present, eastern Sierra Nevada, CA, USA

The effects of recent uplift and volcanism on deposition in Mono Lake, California, from seismic‐reflection (CHIRP) profiles

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