Stratigraphical and Faunal Evidence for Lateglacial and Early Flandrian Environments in South-West Scotland

Bishop, William W.; Coope, G. R.

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“…S1; Ward, 2014), which is comparable to Jardine, 1975;Bishop and Coope, 1977;Smith et al, 2003a). In the most recent of these, 143 Smith et al (2003a) reported that RSL rose from -6 m OD at ~9500 to a mid-Holocene RSL 144 highstand of +6 m OD at ~5500 cal yr BP before falling to present.…”

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Relative sea-level data from southwest Scotland constrain meltwater-driven sea-level jumps prior to the 8.2 kyr BP event

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Gehrels

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract 13The most significant climate cooling of the Holocene is centred on 8.2 kyr BP (the '8.2 14 event'). Its cause is widely attributed to an abrupt slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional providing evidence of at least three distinct episodes of enhanced meltwater discharge from 27 the decaying LIS prior to the 8.2 event. Our observations can be used to test the fidelity of 28 both climate and ice-sheet models in simulating abrupt change during the early Holocene. and 2) and is registered as an abrupt cooling of ~3.3 ± 1.1 °C that lasted for 160 yrs (Kobashi 35 et al., 2007;Thomas et al., 2007). The widely cited (e.g. Alley et al., 1997; De Vernal et al., 36 1997;Barber et al., 1999;Törnqvist and Hijma, 2012) The Cree Estuary is situated on the northern shores of the Solway Firth (N 54°51', W 4°30'). 135The River Cree is tidal from Newton Stewart and drains southwards through the Cree coastal within the broad timeframe of the 8.2 event, although not fully attributed to the event itself. 150These sediments provide the basis for this study. 158Fifty hand-cores were sunk along three transects. Sediments were classified with reference to Laboratory methods 171We conducted microfossil (diatom) analyses in order to determine estimates of past sea level. 172Samples were prepared using standard techniques (Palmer and Abbott, 1986) where SWLI n is the standard water level index for a given sample n, h n is the elevation of a 280This novel approach to sampling is an attempt to reduce the uncertainties of the 281 reconstruction given the wide uncertainties in time and space of the RSL indicators relative to 282 the decimetre and decadal-to-centennial scale of DCP events that we seek to identify. Inferring the timing of abrupt North Atlantic events 309We infer the onset of the two-step increases recorded in the surface δ 18 O record from the the critical time interval compared to the nine in MD03-2665 properties that is coeval with the onset of the δ 13 C excursion. To infer the onset of the second 342 anomaly, we have no choice but to use the δ 18 O record because the δ 13 C series records a 343 broad minimum spanning several centuries rather than two distinct events. 344From proximal to the former LIS margin we also include the timing of three DCPs Results 358 Lithostratigraphy 360Our lithostratigraphic survey confirms the complex sequence of minerogenic silts and 361 laterally extensive beds of organic silt that were originally mapped by Smith et al. (2003a). 362...

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Relative sea-level data from southwest Scotland constrain meltwater-driven sea-level jumps prior to the 8.2 kyr BP event

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“…The Younger Dryas Stadial (GRIP stadial event GS-1) is marked by a sudden incoming of many obligate northern, cold-adapted species of beetle into lowland Britain, indicating further climatic cooling. Shortly after 10 14 C kyr BP there was another sudden and intense climatic warming of the order of 7°C in T MAX values so that by 9.6 14 C kyr BP the temperatures in Britain were as warm as, or even warmer than those of the present day (Bishop and Coope, 1977;Walker et al, in preparation).…”

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Temperature gradients in northern Europe during the last glacial–Holocene transition (14-914C kyr BP) interpreted from coleopteran assemblages

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“…The presence of large grazing herbivores such as reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is suggested also by the presence of dung beetles of Aphodius. The existence of large herbivores, including mammoth and woolly rhinoceros, in western central Scotland at about this time, such as those at Bishopbriggs (Rolfe, 1966) and Kilmaurs (Bishop and Coope, 1977), suggests that the vegetation must have been adequately rich and regionally extensive to support these large herbivores. However, this is not the impression that is given by the reconstructed vegetation cover.…”

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Flora, fauna and climate of Scotland during the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial – palynological, macrofossil and coleopteran investigations

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Dickson

Coope

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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Thin lenses of organic-rich material, on the upper surface of a layer of glacio-fluvial deposits have been studied in an open cast coal-mine near Sourlie, western Scotland. Radiocarbon dates on antler fragments, plant debris and bulk organic matter from silt, showed that the sediments accumulated between ca. 33 500 and 29 000 14 C yr BP, during a period when this part of western Scotland was free of glaciers. The organic-rich sediments yielded a very rich flora and fauna and in total about 160 plant taxa and 61 coleopteran taxa were recorded together with other invertebrates. The Sourlie flora is one of the richest late Middle Weichselian floras yet studied within the British Isles. Leg bones of Coelodonta antiquitatis (woolly rhinoceros) and Rangifer tarandus (reindeer) were also found at the site. During this period, the landscape was treeless and the vegetation could be characterised as an intermediate between a low shrub tundra and sedge^grass^moss tundra. Both the flora and arthropod fauna suggest that during formation of the organic-rich layers at Sourlie, mean July temperatures were 9^10 ‡C. The flora suggests also that at the beginning of formation of these layers, minimum mean July temperatures increased from 7 to 9^10 ‡C, but later dropped again to 7^8 ‡C. A possible time correlation with one of the warmer periods of the Dansgaard^Oeschger cycles in the stable oxygen isotope record of the Greenland ice cores during this period is proposed. The arthropod fauna suggests that mean January temperatures were somewhere between 334 and 311 ‡C. Mean annual temperatures lay probably between 31 and 310 ‡C, which implies the possible presence of discontinuous or continuous permafrost in the area. During winter, a protective snow cover of varying thickness probably enabled perennial plants, especially shrubs, to survive. ß

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Stratigraphical and Faunal Evidence for Lateglacial and Early Flandrian Environments in South-West Scotland

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Relative sea-level data from southwest Scotland constrain meltwater-driven sea-level jumps prior to the 8.2 kyr BP event

Relative sea-level data from southwest Scotland constrain meltwater-driven sea-level jumps prior to the 8.2 kyr BP event

Temperature gradients in northern Europe during the last glacial–Holocene transition (14-914C kyr BP) interpreted from coleopteran assemblages

Flora, fauna and climate of Scotland during the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial – palynological, macrofossil and coleopteran investigations

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