The paleohydrology of Sluice Pond, NE Massachusetts, and its regional significance

Hubeny, J. Bradford; McCarthy, Francine M.G.; Lewis, John W.; Drljepan, Matea; Morissette, Cameron E.; King, John W.; Cantwell, Mark G.; Hudson, Nicole M.; Crispo, Mary Lynne

doi:10.1007/s10933-015-9824-8

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“…For these reasons, and because water levels often depend upon small surface catchments and shallow, climatically sensitive groundwater levels (Winter, 1999;Donovan et al, 2002), reconstructions correlate significantly (r N 0.8) among lakes in the same region (Harrison and Digerfeldt, 1993;Newby et al, 2014;Pribyl and Shuman, 2014) and among independent research groups (e.g., Lavoie and Richard, 2000;Shuman et al, 2001;Hubeny et al, 2015). Where they have been compared, they also agree with plant macrofossil-(e.g., Shuman et al, 2009b), chironomid- (Engels et al, 2012), and pollen-inferred changes (r N0.8; Marsicek et al, 2013).…”

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“…For decades, researchers in Europe and North America have used transects of sediment cores collected from the margins of small lakes (b 50 ha) to reconstruct past shoreline positions and water-level changes (e.g., Digerfeldt, 1972;Winkler et al, 1986;Almquist-Jacobson, 1995;Abbott et al, 2000;Hubeny et al, 2015). The approach has been applied recently to multiple lakes throughout the semi-arid Rocky Mountain region (Shuman et al, 2009a(Shuman et al, , 2010(Shuman et al, , 2014Shinker et al, 2010;Minckley et al, 2012;Pribyl and Shuman, 2014), and depends upon the observation that as water levels change over time the depositional boundary between near-shore (littoral) sands and deep-water (profundal) muds also moves (Lundqvist, 1925;Digerfeldt, 1986;Rowan et al, 1992;Shuman, 2003).…”

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Hydrologic changes in Colorado during the mid-Holocene and Younger Dryas

2015

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The stratigraphy of Upper Big Creek Lake (UBC), an overflowing lake in northern Colorado, indicates that the lake responded to a series of hydroclimatic changes over the past ~ 13,000 years. Modern sediments in eight comparator lakes from across Wyoming and Colorado facilitate the stratigraphic interpretation by showing that littoral sediments have exponentially higher sand content, lower loss-on-ignition (LOI), and lower net accumulation rates than off-shore sediments. Sand layers in two near-shore cores from UBC share the characteristics of the modern littoral sediments (> 80% sand, < 5% LOI, and < 10 cm/ka accumulation rates), and indicate that UBC was > 1.9 m below its outlet from 12,500 to 11,300 and from 7500 to 2100 cal yr BP. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) profiles consistent with the low-water episodes show correlative sand layers and submerged wave-cut scarps around the lake margin. The stratigraphic features correlate with those formed in the comparator lakes during extensive droughts at > 11,300, 6900–6000, and 4800–3400 cal yr BP as well as a series of north-south anti-phased droughts between 5800 and 1200 cal yr BP. Lake closure at UBC amplified the local changes, and demonstrates that climate changes can increase the extent of intermittent streamflow in the Rocky Mountains relative to today.

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Hydrologic changes in Colorado during the mid-Holocene and Younger Dryas

2015

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“…The lake level and IRM data both indicate a long period of drought from about 550 to 750 CE (1400-1200 cal yr BP). Sluice Pond in northeastern Massachusetts (Hubeny et al, 2015) and Piermont Marsh in the Hudson Valley, though not included in this synthesis, also indicate drought during this interval (Pederson et al, 2005). The PDSI reconstruction from tree rings (Fig.…”

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Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years

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Abstract. Many ecosystem processes that influence Earth system feedbacks -vegetation growth, water and nutrient cycling, disturbance regimes -are strongly influenced by multidecadal-to millennial-scale climate variations that cannot be directly observed. Paleoclimate records provide information about these variations, forming the basis of our understanding and modeling of them. Fossil pollen records are abundant in the NE US, but cannot simultaneously provide information about paleoclimate and past vegetation in a modeling context because this leads to circular logic. If pollen data are used to constrain past vegetation changes, then the remaining paleoclimate archives in the northeastern US (NE US) are quite limited. Nonetheless, a growing number of diverse reconstructions have been developed but have not yet been examined together. Here we conduct a systematic review, assessment, and comparison of paleotemperature and paleohydrological proxies from the NE US for the last 3000 years. Regional temperature reconstructions (primarily summer) show a long-term cooling trend (1000 BCE-1700 CE) consistent with hemispheric-scale reconstructions, while hydroclimate data show gradually wetter conditions through the present day. Multiple proxies suggest that a prolonged, widespread drought occurred between 550 and 750 CE. Dry conditions are also evident during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, which was warmer and drier than the Little Ice Age and drier than today. There is some evidence for an acceleration of the longer-term wetting trend in the NE US during the past century; coupled with an abrupt shift from decreasing to increasing temperatures in the past century, these changes could have wide-ranging implications for species distributions, ecosystem dynamics, and extreme weather events. More work is needed to gather paleoclimate data in the NE US to make inter-proxy comparisons and to improve estimates of uncertainty in reconstructions.

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“…In the northeast U.S., the near-shore sediment stratigraphies of small lakes and ponds have indicated past water-level changes and have been used to quantify the timing and magnitude of hydroclimatic changes (e.g., Hubeny et al, 2015). A series of studies using geophysical surveys, multiple sediment cores from each lake, and dozens of radiocarbon analyses spanning at least the last 6 cal ka BP have reconstructed repeated and synchronous precipitation minus evaporation (P-E) fluctuations of multi-century duration (Li et al, 2007; Newby et al, 2014).…”

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Centennial to millennial hydroclimatic fluctuations in the humid northeast United States during the Holocene

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Burrell

2017

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Paleoclimate records indicate that the hydroclimate of the northeast United States changed continuously during the Holocene, but the signals of multi-century variations have been difficult to distinguish from local effects and noise. Systematic replication of the signals can help diagnose the patterns of change. Here, we use ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and sediment core analyses to extend and compare the regional network of lake-level records. We reconstruct the histories of two lakes in northeast Pennsylvania, which show that multi-century hydrologic changes observed in coastal New England extended to the Susquehanna River watershed. Correlations with isotopic and marine temperature records (r>0.65) indicate that high temperatures coincided with low water at 4.9–3.8 and 2.8–2.0 ka. Widely recognized Holocene events at ca. 4.2 and 2.7 ka, therefore, may have shared similar ocean-atmosphere dynamics in this region. Low water levels in Pennsylvania from ca. 5.5–4.9 ka, however, demonstrate that other multi-century changes had different patterns. At ca. 5.5 ka, anti-phased inland and coastal hydrologic changes followed a sharp temperature decline and produced drought possibly as far inland as the Great Lakes. The long-term increase in water levels since then underscores that current pluvial conditions in the region probably lack a Holocene precedent.

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The paleohydrology of Sluice Pond, NE Massachusetts, and its regional significance

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Hydrologic changes in Colorado during the mid-Holocene and Younger Dryas

Hydrologic changes in Colorado during the mid-Holocene and Younger Dryas

Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years

Centennial to millennial hydroclimatic fluctuations in the humid northeast United States during the Holocene

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