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Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary
The existence of freshwater ferromanganese concretions has been known for decades, but we are not aware of a generally accepted explanation for their formation, and there has been little research into their potential use as records of Holocene climate and paleohydrology. A conceptual model is presen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8243233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34267424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836211011652 |
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author | Hayles, Simon Al, Tom Cornett, Jack Harrison, Alex Zhao, Jiujiang |
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description | The existence of freshwater ferromanganese concretions has been known for decades, but we are not aware of a generally accepted explanation for their formation, and there has been little research into their potential use as records of Holocene climate and paleohydrology. A conceptual model is presented to describe the environmental and geochemical processes which result in the formation and growth of freshwater ferromanganese concretions. In order to evaluate their potential as historical geochemical records, a concretion from Magaguadavic Lake, New Brunswick, Canada is the focus of a detailed geochronological and geochemical investigation. The radiocarbon data provide a coherent growth curve and a maximum age for the concretion of 8448 ± 43 years, consistent with the establishment of Magaguadavic Lake as a stable post-glacial lacustrine system. The data suggest accretion rates of 1.5 and 3.4 mm per 1000 years during the Northgrippian and Meghalayan stages of the Holocene, respectively. The abrupt change in growth rate observed at the stage boundary may be an indicator of Holocene climate change. These features are consistent with inferences from previous research that warmer climate in the Northgrippian led to eutrophication in some lakes in eastern North America. The results confirm that freshwater Fe–Mn concretions may yield important information about past climatic and environmental conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-82432332021-07-13 Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary Hayles, Simon Al, Tom Cornett, Jack Harrison, Alex Zhao, Jiujiang Holocene Research Papers The existence of freshwater ferromanganese concretions has been known for decades, but we are not aware of a generally accepted explanation for their formation, and there has been little research into their potential use as records of Holocene climate and paleohydrology. A conceptual model is presented to describe the environmental and geochemical processes which result in the formation and growth of freshwater ferromanganese concretions. In order to evaluate their potential as historical geochemical records, a concretion from Magaguadavic Lake, New Brunswick, Canada is the focus of a detailed geochronological and geochemical investigation. The radiocarbon data provide a coherent growth curve and a maximum age for the concretion of 8448 ± 43 years, consistent with the establishment of Magaguadavic Lake as a stable post-glacial lacustrine system. The data suggest accretion rates of 1.5 and 3.4 mm per 1000 years during the Northgrippian and Meghalayan stages of the Holocene, respectively. The abrupt change in growth rate observed at the stage boundary may be an indicator of Holocene climate change. These features are consistent with inferences from previous research that warmer climate in the Northgrippian led to eutrophication in some lakes in eastern North America. The results confirm that freshwater Fe–Mn concretions may yield important information about past climatic and environmental conditions. SAGE Publications 2021-04-27 2021-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8243233/ /pubmed/34267424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836211011652 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Papers Hayles, Simon Al, Tom Cornett, Jack Harrison, Alex Zhao, Jiujiang Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary |
title | Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions
indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the
Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary |
title_full | Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions
indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the
Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary |
title_fullStr | Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions
indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the
Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary |
title_full_unstemmed | Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions
indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the
Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary |
title_short | Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions
indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the
Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary |
title_sort | growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions
indicate regional climate change in eastern canada at the
northgrippian-meghalayan boundary |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8243233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34267424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836211011652 |
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