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BIOGEOSCIENCES
Volume 12, Issue 24, Pages 7453-7465Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-7453-2015
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- ICDP
- German Ministry of Higher Education and Research
- German Research Foundation
- University of Cologne
- British Geological Survey
- INGV (Italy)
- CNR (Italy)
- government of the FYROM
- government of the Albania
- German Research Foundation [WO 672/10-1]
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Gamma ray (GR) fluctuations and potassium (K) values from downhole logging data obtained in the sediments of Lake Ohrid from 0 to 240 m below lake floor (b.l.f). correlate with fluctuations in delta O-18 values from the global benthic isotope stack LR04 (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005). GR and K values are considered a reliable proxy to depict glacial-interglacial cycles, with high clastic input during cold and/or drier periods and high carbonate precipitation during warm and/or humid periods at Lake Ohrid. Spectral analysis was applied to investigate the climate signal and evolution over the length of the borehole. Linking downhole logging data with orbital cycles was used to estimate sedimentation rates and the effect of compaction was compensated for. Sedimentation rates increase on average by 14 % after decompaction of the sediment layers and the mean sedimentation rates shift from 45 cm kyr(-1) between 0 and 110 m to 30 cm kyr(-1) from 110 to 240 m b.l.f. Tuning of minima and maxima of gamma ray and potassium values versus LR04 extrema, in combination with eight independent tephrostratigraphical tie points, allows establishing of a robust age model for the downhole logging data over the past 630 kyr.
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