New tree-ring evidence for the Late Glacial period from the northern pre-Alps in eastern Switzerland

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F18%3A00122715" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/18:00122715 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/18:00489761

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.019" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.019</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.019" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

New tree-ring evidence for the Late Glacial period from the northern pre-Alps in eastern Switzerland

Original language description

The rate and magnitude of temperature variability at the transition from the Last Glacial Maximum into the early Holocene represents a natural analog to current and predicted climate change. A limited number of high-resolution proxy archives, however, challenges our understanding of environmental conditions during this period. Here, we present combined dendrochronological and radiocarbon evidence from 253 newly discovered subfossil pine stumps from Zurich, Switzerland. The individual trees reveal ages of 41-506 years and were growing between the Allerod and Preboreal (similar to 13'900-11'300 cal BP). Together with previously collected pines from this region, this world's best preserved Late Glacial forest substantially improves the earliest part of the absolutely dated European tree-ring width chronology between 11'300 and 11'900 cal BP. Radiocarbon measurements from 65 Zurich pines between similar to 12'320 and 13'950 cal BP provide a perspective to prolong the continuous European tree-ring record by another similar to 2000 years into the Late Glacial era. These data will also be relevant for pinpointing the Laacher See volcanic eruption (similar to 12'900 cal BP) and two major Alpine earthquakes (similar to 13'770 and similar to 11'600 cal BP). In summary, this study emphasizes the importance of dating precision and multi-proxy comparison to disentangle environmental signals from methodological noise, particularly during periods of high climate variability but low data availability, such as the Younger Dryas cold spell (similar to 11'700 and 12'900 cal BP).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Quaternary Science Reviews

ISSN

0277-3791

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

186

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

215-224

UT code for WoS article

000430770000014

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85043376128