Earth-prints: Enhanced rainfall in the western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia Cave (Central Italy)

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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/2369

Authors:	Zanchetta, G.^* Drysdale, R. N.^* Hellstrom, J. C.^* Fallick, A. E.^* Isola, I.^* Gargan, M.^* Pareschi, M. T.^*
Title:	Enhanced rainfall in the western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia Cave (Central Italy)
Title of journal:	Quaternary Sci. Rev.
Issue Date:	2006
Keywords:	speleothems Corchia Cave sapropel S1 stable isotopes Italy
Abstract:	A stable isotope record from a stalagmite collected from Antro del Corchia cave (Apuan Alps, Central Italy), supported by 17 uranium-series ages, indicates enhanced regional rainfall between ca. 8.9 and 7.3 kyr cal. BP at the time of sapropel S1 deposition. Within this phase, the highest rainfall occurred between 7.9 and 7.4 kyr cal. BP. Comparison with different marine and lake records, and in particular with the Soreq Cave record (Israel), suggests substantial in-phase occurrence of enhanced rainfall between the Western and Eastern Mediterranean basins. There is no convincing evidence for major climatic change at the time of the “8.2 ka event”.
Appears in Collections:	04.04.04. Marine geology Papers Published / Papers in press 03.03.01. Air/water/earth interactions 03.03.04. Upper ocean and mixed layer processes