Interpreting lake isotope records of Holocene environmental change in the Eastern Mediterranean

Oxygen isotopic composition of fruit carbonate in Lithospermeae and its potential for paleoclimate research in the Mediterranean

“…The factors governing this pattern are still in question. Precipitation amounts in the Mediterranean are temperature-dependent and it is difficult to say which factor is leading in formation of 18 O/ 16 O ratios of atmospheric water (Bar-Matthews et al, 1997;Jones and Roberts, 2008). As mentioned above, the seasonality of δ 18 O values in atmospheric water at sites shows a similar character as the air temperatures (Fig.…”

Holocene oxygen isotope record of diatoms from Lake Kotokel (southern Siberia, Russia) and its palaeoclimatic implications

“…This is especially true for lakes that did not dry out during glacial periods or which have never been glaciated and existed for a long time as isolated systems (Bezrukova et al, 2008;Jones and Roberts, 2008;Swann et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2010). During the past decades multi-proxy studies of sediment cores from lakes greatly contributed to the reconstruction of late Quaternary climate and environment and allowed correlation with continuous archives stored in marine sediments and ice cores (Jones and Roberts, 2008;Svensson et al, 2008;Mügler et al, 2010).…”

“…The use of oxygen isotopes recorded from biogenic or sedimentary hosts within lake sediments has become an increasingly common technique (Leng and Marshall, 2004;Jones and Roberts, 2008). A large number of such records from different parts of the world (Leng and Marshall, 2004;Leng and Barker, 2006;Swann and Leng, 2009), including the Lake Baikal region (Morley et al, 2005;Kalmychkov et al, 2007;Mackay et al, 2008Mackay et al, , 2011, have been published and demonstrate the potential for reconstructing past climate changes from the oxygen isotope composition of biogenic silica (d 18 O Si ) in both quantitative and qualitative ways.…”

“…If fully understood, diatom isotope records have the potential to provide a regional picture of hydrological and climatic change. However, because there are multiple controls over the isotope composition of lake waters, the interpretation of these records requires a careful analysis of all potential influences (Jones and Roberts, 2008).…”

Climatic implications of annual to decadal resolution stable isotope data from calcite varves of the Piànico interglacial lake record, Southern Alps

“…It has been further demonstrated that also endogenic calcite in lake sediments is a suitable carrier of stable oxygen and carbon isotope signals for reconstructing past climate and hydrological changes (Siegenthaler et al, 1984;Leng and Marshall, 2004;Jones and Roberts, 2008). However, the resolution of isotope analyses of endogenic calcite lake sediments often is limited to 0.5-1 cm sample intervals.…”