Response of alluvial systems to Late Pleistocene climate changes recorded by environmental magnetism in the Añavieja Basin (Iberian range, NE Spain)
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UAM. Departamento de Geología y GeoquímicaPublisher
Universitat de BarcelonaDate
2016-06Citation
10.1344/GeologicaActa2016.14.2.4
Geologica Acta 14.2 (2016): 139-154
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1695-6133 (print)DOI
10.1344/GeologicaActa2016.14.2.4Funded by
This study has been supported by research projects CGL2009-09165/BTE and CGL2009-08969, funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from Spain and FEDER UZ 2008-CIE-12. The Groups “Análisis de cuencas sedimentarias continentales” (E-28), “Geotransfer” and “Geomorfología y Cambio Global” (E-68) of the Aragón Government Fondo Social Europeo also supported the study. Q. Liu thanks support from the Chinese Academy of SciencesProject
Gobierno de España. CGL2009-09165/BTE; Gobierno de España. CGL2009-08969Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2016.14.2.4Subjects
Alluvial sequence; Añavieja Basin; Environmental magnetism; Magnetite; NGRIP curve; Temperature; Vegetation cover; GeologíaRights
© 2016, Universitat de Barcelona.Abstract
Environmental magnetic proxies were analyzed in a relatively monotonous, ~25.3m thick alluvial sedimentary sequence drilled in the Añavieja Basin (NE Spain). Results from the core AÑ2 suggest that the concentration dependent magnetic parameters mainly reflect variations in the content of detrital magnetite, sourced in the catchment rocks and soils of the basin, via changes in the dynamics of alluvial fans due to temperature changes in the northern hemisphere during the Late Pleistocene. The correspondence between the magnetic proxies and the temperature variations in the North Atlantic region (NGRIP curve) indicates that higher (lower) concentrations and finer (coarser) magnetite grains coincide with warm (cold) periods. We propose that during cold periods, a sparser vegetation cover favored the incoming of higher energy runoff bearing coarser sediments to the basin that are relatively impoverished in magnetite. In contrast, during warm periods, the wider distribution of the vegetation cover associated with the lower runoff energy lead to finer, magnetite-richer sediment input to the basin. Maghemite, presumably of pedogenic origin, appears to be present also in the studied alluvial sediments. Further studies are necessary to unravel its palaeoclimatic significance
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Google Scholar:Oliva Urcia, Belén
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Muñoz, A.
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Larasoaña, J.C.
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Luzón, A.
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Pérez, A.
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González, Á.
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Jiang, Z.
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Liu, Q.
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Román-Berdiel, T.
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