Littoral landforms and pedosedimentary sequences indicating late Holocene lake-level changes in northern central Europe — A case study from northeastern Germany

Kaiser, Knut; Küster, Mathias; Fülling, Alexander; Theuerkauf, Martin; Dietze, Elisabeth; Graventein, Hagen; Koch, Paul J.; Bens, Oliver; Brauer, Achim

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“…a BP required the sediment limit and corresponding storm wave base and lake level to rise by at least 4 m. This would be higher than the 3‐m Medieval lake highstand recorded in onshore palaeosol sediment sequences (Kaiser et al . ). Lake volume and area would have increased by at least 390 and 310%, respectively (Fig.…”

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“…by drainage measures (Kaiser et al . ). In contrast, a lack of a trophy‐related forcing of carbonate precipitation before 3800 cal.…”

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“…a = 4 m low stand reconstructed from sand layers in GFS 11‐C; b = peat in 90 cm below present lake level (Kaiser et al . ); c = 4 m highstand reconstructed from littoral carbonate muds in GFS 11‐ AB ; d = 3 m highstand reconstructed by Kaiser et al . ().…”

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“…However, since at least the 17th century and until the establishment of the Müritz national park in AD 1990, the lake was artificially connected to adjacent lakes (Kaiser et al . ). Kaiser et al .…”

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“…Kaiser et al . () reconstructed a 3‐m‐higher lake stand during the late Medieval time, but full water level amplitudes are unknown for the Holocene.…”

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ELISABETH DIETZE, MICHAŁ SŁOWIŃSKI, IZABELA ZAWISKA, GEORG VEH AND ACHIM BRAUER 2 3Dietze, E., Słowiński, M., Zawiska, I., Veh, G., Brauer, A.: Multiple drivers of Holocene lake 4 level changes at a lowland lake in northeastern GermanyMany German lakes experienced significant water level declines in the last decades that are 7 not fully understood due to the short observation period. At a typical northeastern German 8 groundwater-fed lake with complex basin morphology, an acoustic sub-bottom profile was 9 analysed together with a transect of five sediment cores, which were correlated using multiple 10 proxies (sediment facies, µ-XRF, macrofossils, subfossil Cladocera). Shifts in the boundary 11 between sand and mud deposition were controlled by lake level changes, and hence, allowed traced continuously using the Calcium-record. During high lake levels, massive organic muds 15 were deposited in the deepest lake basin, whereas lower lake levels isolated the sub-basins 16 and allowed carbonate deposition. 17During the beginning of the Holocene (>9700 cal. a BP), lake levels were high likely due to final 18 melting of permafrost and dead-ice remains. The establishment of water use intensive Pinus 19 forests caused generally low (3-4 m below modern) but fluctuating lake levels (9700-6400 cal. 20 a BP). Afterwards, the lake showed an increasing trend and reached a short-term high-stand 21 ~5000 cal. a BP (4 m above modern). At the transition towards a cooler and wetter late 22 Holocene, forests dominated by Quercus and Fagus and initial human impact likely 23 contributed more positively to groundwater recharge. Lake levels remained high between 24 3800 and 800 cal. a BP, but the lake system was not sensitive enough to record short-term 25 fluctuations during this period. Lake level changes were recorded again, when humans 26 profoundly affected the drainage system, land cover and lake trophy. Hence changes, e.g. macrofossils and the position of the sediment limit, i.e., the upper limit for the 68 predominant deposition of organic-rich mud related to sediment focusing (Digerfeldt 1986; 69 Dearing 1997). The "Digerfeldt approach" has provided reliable lake level reconstructions 70 across the globe (e.g. Punning et al. 2004; Shuman et al. 2010;Haig et al. 2013), but so far has 71 been restricted to shallow lakes <100 ha with simple basin morphologies (e.g. low-angled In the central European lowlands, hydrological reconstructions primarily rely on records from 74 small lakes or peat bogs (Gałka et al. 2013(Gałka et al. , 2014 Słowiński et al. 2015). In northeastern Germany, a high sensitivity of lakes to Holocene hydrological changes has been suggested (e.g. 76Lampe et al. 2009; Kaiser et al. 2012 Kaiser et al. , 2014b Küster et al. 2014); however, well-dated lake 77 level reconstructions remained restricted to certain times. 78Lake Fürstenseer See, a typical groundwater fed lake with complex morphology has 79 already showed pronounced changes in lake level and size during the instrumental period 80 (Germer et ...

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confidence: 97%

“…by drainage measures (Kaiser et al . ). In contrast, a lack of a trophy‐related forcing of carbonate precipitation before 3800 cal.…”

Section: Interpretation and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Interpretation and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Kaiser et al . () reconstructed a 3‐m‐higher lake stand during the late Medieval time, but full water level amplitudes are unknown for the Holocene.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Reconstructing rates and patterns of colluvial soil redistribution in agrarian (hummocky) landscapes

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Humans have triggered or accelerated erosion processes since prehistoric times through agricultural practices. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) is widely used to quantify phases and rates of the corresponding landscape change, by measuring the last moment of daylight exposure of sediments. However, natural and anthropogenic mixing processes, such as bioturbation and tillage, complicate the use of OSL as grains of different depositional ages become mixed, and grains become exposed to light even long after the depositional event of interest. Instead, OSL determines the stabilization age, indicating when sediments were buried below the active mixing zone. These stabilization ages can cause systematic underestimation when calculating deposition rates. Our focus is on colluvial deposition in a kettle hole in the Uckermark region, northeastern Germany. We took 32 samples from five locations in the colluvium filling the kettle hole to study both spatial and temporal patterns in colluviation. We combined OSL dating with advanced age modelling to determine the stabilization age of colluvial sediments. These ages were combined with an archaeological reconstruction of historical ploughing depths to derive the levels of the soil surface at the moment of stabilization; the deposition depths, which were then used to calculate unbiased deposition rates. We identified two phases of colluvial deposition. The oldest deposits (~5 ka) were located at the fringe of the kettle hole and accumulated relatively slowly, whereas the youngest deposits (<0.3 ka) rapidly filled the central kettle hole with rates of two orders of magnitude higher. We suggest that the latter phase is related to artificial drainage, facilitating accessibility in the central depression for agricultural practices. Our results show the need for numerical dating techniques that take archaeological and soil‐geomorphological information into account to identify spatiotemporal patterns of landscape change, and to correctly interpret landscape dynamics in anthropogenically influenced hilly landscapes. © 2019 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Characterization of (paleo)lacustrine landforms using sedimentological and portable OSL investigations at Schweriner See, north‐eastern Germany

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We investigated four subaerial (paleo)lacustrine landforms at the north‐eastern shoreline of Schweriner See, north‐eastern Germany. These included two beach ridges, one subaerial nearshore bar and a silting up sequence located close to a fossil cliff, which marks the former maximum extent of Schweriner See. We used luminescence profiling with a SUERC portable OSL device (POSL) on all four sediment sequences in combination with sedimentological investigations such as grain size, loss‐on‐ignition and magnetic susceptibility to provide information on the various formations in a lacustrine depositional environment. The POSL reader was used on pre‐treated polymineral samples to gain an insight into luminescence distribution within the individual sediment sequences, but also among the four sequences. POSL proved valuable to understand depositional processes, which were not visible in lithology or sedimentological parameters. With somewhat larger uncertainty this method provides relative chronologies of the sediment sequences. Additionally, we carried out radiocarbon dating and full optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to establish a chronological framework. OSL ages proved to be more reliable to date beach ridges in this setting than radiocarbon samples, which were severely influenced by sediment reworking. This combined approach of sedimentological analyses, luminescence profiling and absolute age determinations revealed details in depositional processes at Schweriner See which otherwise would have remained undetected. Furthermore, it helped to set these subaerial (paleo)lacustrine landforms in a chronological framework.

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Littoral landforms and pedosedimentary sequences indicating late Holocene lake-level changes in northern central Europe — A case study from northeastern Germany

Abstract: A multidisciplinary study was carried out at Lake Großer Fürstenseer See (LFS) in order to explore the potential of littoral sediments, palaeosols and landforms as indicators of historical lake-level changes. This research was initiated to investigate the extent to which lakes in

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Multiple drivers of Holocene lake level changes at a lowland lake in northeastern Germany

Multiple drivers of Holocene lake level changes at a lowland lake in northeastern Germany

Reconstructing rates and patterns of colluvial soil redistribution in agrarian (hummocky) landscapes

Characterization of (paleo)lacustrine landforms using sedimentological and portable OSL investigations at Schweriner See, north‐eastern Germany

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