The 100–133 ka record of Italian explosive volcanism and revised tephrochronology of Lago Grande di Monticchio

Wulf, Sabine; Keller, Jörg; Paterne, Martine; Mingram, Jens; Lauterbach, Stefan; Opitz, Stephan; Sottili, Gianluca; Giaccio, Biagio; Albert, Paul G.; Satow, Chris; Tomlinson, Emma L.; Viccaro, Marco; Brauer, Achim

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.020

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“…Further afield, eruptive histories are being revisited from distal tephra studies in marine, lake and peat deposits as well as in the ice caps (e.g., Shane and Hoverd, 2002;Wulf et al, 2004Wulf et al, , 2008Wulf et al, , 2012Kutterolf et al, 2008a;Kuehn and Negrini, 2010;Sulpizio et al, 2010a,b;Dunbar and Kurbatov, 2011;Abbott and Davies, 2012;Narcisi et al, 2012;Pyne-O'Donnell et al, 2012;Jensen et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2013;Davies et al, 2014;van den Bogaard et al, 2014;Bourne et al, 2015a,b;Lane et al, 2015). By now, distal tephra and cryptotephra research has been successfully undertaken in many regions including Greenland (e.g., Abbott et al, 2012;Abbott and Davies, 2012;Coulter et al, 2012;Bourne et al, 2015b); North Atlantic (e.g., Lacasse and Garbe-Schönberg, 2001;Brendryen et al, 2011;Gudmundsdóttir et al, 2012;Blockley et al, 2014;Davies et al, 2014;Griggs et al, 2014;Voelker and Haflidason, 2015); European mainland (e.g., Caron et al, 2010;Sulpizio et al, 2010a,b;Lane et al, 2011Lane et al, , 2015Lawson et al, 2012); Mediterranean (Siani et al, 2004;Wulf et al, 2004Wulf et al, , 2008Wulf et al, , 2012Paterne et al, 2008;…”

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“…By now, distal tephra and cryptotephra research has been successfully undertaken in many regions including Greenland (e.g., Abbott et al, 2012;Abbott and Davies, 2012;Coulter et al, 2012;Bourne et al, 2015b); North Atlantic (e.g., Lacasse and Garbe-Schönberg, 2001;Brendryen et al, 2011;Gudmundsdóttir et al, 2012;Blockley et al, 2014;Davies et al, 2014;Griggs et al, 2014;Voelker and Haflidason, 2015); European mainland (e.g., Caron et al, 2010;Sulpizio et al, 2010a,b;Lane et al, 2011Lane et al, , 2015Lawson et al, 2012); Mediterranean (Siani et al, 2004;Wulf et al, 2004Wulf et al, , 2008Wulf et al, , 2012Paterne et al, 2008;Zanchetta et al, 2011;Albert et al, 2012Albert et al, , 2015Bourne et al, 2015a;Çagatay et al, 2015;Wutke et al, 2015); in and around Japan (e.g., Park et al, 2003;Matsu'ura et al, 2011;Okuno et al, 2011;Smith et al, 2011bSmith et al, , 2013Lim et al, 2013); New Zealand (Shane, 2000;Alloway et al, 2005;Shane et al, 2006;Allan et al, 2008;Holt et al, 2011;Shane and Wright, 2011;…”

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Tephra without Borders: Far-Reaching Clues into Past Explosive Eruptions

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This review is intended to highlight recent exciting advances in the study of distal (>100 km from the source) tephra and cryptotephra deposits and their potential application for volcanology. Geochemical correlations of tephra between proximal and distal locations have extended the geographical distribution of tephra over tens of millions square kilometers. Such correlations embark on the potential to reappraise volume and magnitude estimates of known eruptions. Cryptotephra investigations in marine, lake, and ice-core records also give rise to continuous chronicles of large explosive eruptions many of which were hitherto unknown. Tephra preservation within distal ice sheets and varved lake sediments permit precise dating of parent eruptions and provide new insight into the frequency of eruptions. Recent advances in analytical methods permit an examination of magmatic processes and the evolution of the whole volcanic belts at distances of hundreds and thousands of kilometers from source. Distal tephrochronology has much to offer volcanology and has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of sizes, recurrence intervals and geochemical make-up of the large explosive eruptions.

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Tephra without Borders: Far-Reaching Clues into Past Explosive Eruptions

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“…There is a maximum divergence of 582 varves between the tephra layers TM-21 (78.47 ka) and TM 21-1a (79.12 ka), and a minimum divergence of 11 varves between the tephra layers TM-24-2a (104.18 ka) and TM24-2b (104.28 ka) ( Fig. 2c; for the full description of the MON tephra layers see Wulf et al, 2004Wulf et al, , 2012. The detailed comparison between the MON-07 and the MON-2014 varve counts allows us, in addition to the gross error range of ±5 % given for the absolute ages of entire record (Allen et al, 1999;Brauer et al, 2007), to provide a betterconstrained and more precise error estimate for the study interval.…”

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“…This record provides an absolute timescale for the early last glacial period based on varve counting, tephrochronology and 40 Ar / 39 Ar dating of tephra layers (Allen et al, 1999;Brauer et al, 2000Brauer et al, , 2007Wulf et al, 2004Wulf et al, , 2012. However, still today the main focus of investigations has been on vegetation changes at decadal to centennial resolution (Allen et al, 1999;Brauer et al, 2007).…”

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Annual proxy data from Lago Grande di Monticchio (southern Italy) between 76 and 112 ka: new chronological constraints and insights on abrupt climatic oscillations

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Abstract. We present new annual sedimentological proxies and sub-annual element scanner data from the Lago Grande di Monticchio (MON) sediment record for the sequence 76-112 thousand years before present (ka). They are combined with the previously published decadal to centennial resolved pollen assemblage in order to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of six major abrupt stadial spells (MON 1-6) in the central Mediterranean during the early phase of the last glaciation. These climatic oscillations are defined by intervals of thicker varves and high Ti-counts and coincide with episodes of forest depletion interpreted as Mediterranean stadial conditions (cold winter/dry summer). Our chronology, labelled as MON-2014, has been updated for the study interval by tephrochronology and repeated and more precise varve counts and is independent from ice-core and speleothem chronologies. The high-resolution Monticchio data then have been compared in detail with the Greenland ice-core δ 18 O record (NorthGRIP) and the northern Alps speleothem δ 18 O calcite data (NALPS). Based on visual inspection of major changes in the proxy data, MON 2-6 are suggested to correlate with Greenland stadials (GS) 25-20. MON 1 (Woillard event), the first and shortest cooling spell in the Mediterranean after a long phase of stable interglacial conditions, has no counterpart in the Greenland ice core, but coincides with the lowest isotope values at the end of the gradual decrease in δ 18 O ice in NorthGRIP during the second half of the Greenland interstadial (GI) 25. MON 3 is the least pronounced cold spell and shows gradual transitions, whereas its NorthGRIP counterpart GS 24 is characterized by sharp changes in the isotope records. MON 2 and MON 4 are the longest and most pronounced oscillations in the MON sediments in good agreement with their counterparts identified in the ice and spelethem records. The length of MON 4 (correlating with GS 22) supports the duration of stadial proposed by the NALPS timescales and suggests ca. 500 year longer duration than calculated by the ice-core chronologies GICC05 modelext and AICC2012. Absolute dating of the cold spells provided by the MON-2014 chronology shows good agreement among the MON-2014, the GICC05 modelext and the NALPS timescales for the period between 112 and 100 ka. In contrast, the MON-2014 varve chronology dates the oscillations MON 4 to MON 6 (92-76 ka) as ca. 3500 years older than the most likely corresponding stadials GS 22 to GS 20 by the other chronologies.

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“…Not only are many of the widespread Mediterranean tephra markers, such as the Y-1 (sourced from Etna), Campanian Ignimbrite (Y-5), Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (C-2) and Monte Epomeo Green Tuff (Y-7) represented by thick deposits in this sequence, but many can be closely dated through a combination of varve, radiocarbon and sedimentation rate chronology. Collaborative links with RESET were established which led to the re-analysis of selected Lago Grande di Monticchio tephra marker layers (see Wulf et al, 2012;Tomlinson et al, 2012bTomlinson et al, , 2014.…”

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The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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a b s t r a c tThis paper introduces the aims and scope of the RESET project (RESponse of humans to abrupt Environmental Transitions), a programme of research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) between 2008 and 2013; it also provides the context and rationale for papers included in a special volume of Quaternary Science Reviews that report some of the project's findings. RESET examined the chronological and correlation methods employed to establish causal links between the timing of abrupt environmental transitions (AETs) on the one hand, and of human dispersal and development on the other, with a focus on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic periods. The period of interest is the Last Glacial cycle and the early Holocene (c. 100e8 ka), during which time a number of pronounced AETs occurred. A long-running topic of debate is the degree to which human history in Europe and the Mediterranean region during the Palaeolithic was shaped by these AETs, but this has proved difficult to assess because of poor dating control. In an attempt to move the science forward, RESET examined the potential that tephra isochrons, and in particular non-visible ash layers (cryptotephras), might offer for synchronising palaeo-records with a greater degree of finesse. New tephrostratigraphical data generated by the project augment previously-established tephra frameworks for the region, and underpin a more evolved tephra 'lattice' that links palaeo-records between Greenland, the European mainland, sub-marine sequences in the Mediterranean and North Africa. The paper also outlines the significance of other contributions to this special volume: collectively, these illustrate how the lattice was constructed, how it links with cognate tephra research in Europe and elsewhere, and how the evidence of tephra isochrons is beginning to challenge long-held views about the impacts of environmental change on humans during the Palaeolithic.

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The 100–133 ka record of Italian explosive volcanism and revised tephrochronology of Lago Grande di Monticchio

Cited by 107 publications

References 85 publications

Tephra without Borders: Far-Reaching Clues into Past Explosive Eruptions

Tephra without Borders: Far-Reaching Clues into Past Explosive Eruptions

Annual proxy data from Lago Grande di Monticchio (southern Italy) between 76 and 112 ka: new chronological constraints and insights on abrupt climatic oscillations

The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka

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