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Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal

Panizzo, V.N.; Swann, G.E.A.; Mackay, A.W.; Pashley, V.; Horstwood, M.S.A.

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Authors

A.W. Mackay

V. Pashley

M.S.A. Horstwood



Abstract

Limnological reconstructions of primary productivity have demonstrated its response over Quaternary timescales to drivers such as climate change, landscape evolution and lake ontogeny. In particular, sediments from Lake Baikal, Siberia, provide a valuable uninterrupted and continuous sequence of biogenic silica (BSi) records, which document orbital and sub-orbital frequencies of regional climate change. We here extend these records via the application of stable isotope analysis of silica in diatom opal (δ30Sidiatom) from sediments covering the Last Interglacial cycle (Marine Isotope Stage [MIS] 5e; c. 130 to 115 ka BP) as a means to test the hypothesis that it was more productive than the Holocene. δ30Sidiatom data for the Last Interglacial range between +1.29 to +1.78‰, with highest values between c. 127 to 124 ka BP (+1.57 to +1.78‰). Results show that diatom dissolved silicon (DSi) utilisation, was significantly higher (p=0.001) during MIS 5e than the current interglacial, which reflects increased diatom productivity over this time (concomitant with high diatom biovolume accumulation rates [BVAR] and warmer pollen-inferred vegetation reconstructions). Diatom BVAR are used, in tandem with δ30Sidiatom data, to model DSi supply to Lake Baikal surface waters, which shows that highest delivery was between c. 123 to 120 ka BP (reaching peak supply at c. 120 ka BP). When constrained by sedimentary mineralogical archives of catchment weathering indices (e.g. the Hydrolysis Index), data highlight the small degree of weathering intensity and therefore representation that catchment-weathering DSi sources had, over the duration of MIS 5e. Changes to DSi supply are therefore attributed to variations in within-lake conditions (e.g. turbulent mixing) over the period, where periods of both high productivity and modelled-DSi supply (e.g. strong convective mixing) account for the decreasing trend in δ30Sidiatom compositions (after c. 124 ka BP).

Citation

Panizzo, V., Swann, G., Mackay, A., Pashley, V., & Horstwood, M. (2018). Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.006

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 6, 2018
Online Publication Date May 8, 2018
Publication Date Jun 15, 2018
Deposit Date May 3, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Quaternary Science Reviews
Print ISSN 0277-3791
Electronic ISSN 1873-457X
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 190
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.006
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/938653
Publisher URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379117307758

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