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PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
卷 193, 期 1, 页码 51-72出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00710-1
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lake levels; climate reconstruction; regional scale; modern analogue method; St. Lawrence lowlands; southern Quebec
Pollen and lake-level data are used to reconstruct past climate changes in the St. Lawrence lowlands, southern Quebec. Past lake-level changes are assessed from sedimentological, pollen and macrofossil records from a single shallow-water core from Lac Hertel, which lies in the central part of the studied area. Three low lake-level phases are recognised: prior to 8000, 7600-6600 and 4800-3400 cal. BP. The modern analogue method is applied to pollen data from seven well-dated sites from the St. Lawrence lowlands and adjacent mountain areas, constrained and unconstrained by lake-level changes. The reconstructed climate changes are congruent with the pattern of climate changes known from eastern North America: a dry and cold late-glacial episode due to the presence of pro-glacial lakes and seas; a rapid warming between 12500 and 11 000 cal. BP possibly caused by increasing summer insolation; a dry period from 10 000 to 6500 cal. BP; a brief cooling between 9000 and 8000 cal. BP, possibly related to a summer cooling of Arctic airmasses; a temperature maximum around 8000 cal. BP; and finally, a progressive decrease in summer temperature and an increase in (winter?) precipitation over the 4500 last years. These results show that it is possible to reveal seasonal patterns in climate by combining pollen and lake-level data. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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