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The Holocene The Holocene http://hol.sagepub.com/ New insights into paleoenvironmental changes in Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Patagonia, since the Late Pleistocene: The PASADO multiproxy record Cristina Recasens, Daniel Ariztegui, Catalina Gebhardt, Claudia Gogorza, Torsten Haberzettl, Annette Hahn, Pierre Kliem, Agathe Lisé-Pronovost, Andreas Lücke, Nora Maidana, Christoph Mayr, Christian Ohlendorf, Frank Schäbitz, Guillaume St-Onge, Michael Wille, Bernd Zolitschka and Science Team The Holocene 2012 22: 1323 originally published online 14 December 2011 DOI: 10.1177/0959683611429833 The online version of this article can be found at: http://hol.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1323 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for The Holocene can be found at: Email Alerts: http://hol.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://hol.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://hol.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1323.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 17, 2012 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Dec 14, 2011 What is This? Downloaded from hol.sagepub.com at UNIVERSITAETSBIBLIOTHEK on December 2, 2013 HOL221110.1177/0959683 429833611429833Recasens et al.The Holocene 2011 Holocene Special Issue The Holocene 22(11) 1323 –1335 New insights into paleoenvironmental © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav changes in Laguna Potrok Aike, southern DOI: 10.1177/0959683611429833 Patagonia, since the Late Pleistocene: hol.sagepub.com The PASADO multiproxy record Cristina Recasens,1 Daniel Ariztegui,1 Catalina Gebhardt,2 Claudia Gogorza,3 Torsten Haberzettl,4 Annette Hahn,5 Pierre Kliem,5 Agathe Lisé-Pronovost,6 Andreas Lücke,7 Nora Maidana,8 Christoph Mayr,9 Christian Ohlendorf,5 Frank Schäbitz,10 Guillaume St-Onge,6 Michael Wille,10 Bernd Zolitschka5 and the PASADO Science Team11 Abstract A series of long sediment cores was retrieved from Laguna Potrok Aike, Southern Patagonia, within the framework of PASADO (Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project), an ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program) lake drilling project. This maar lake, located at 52°S, 70°W in the Province of Santa Cruz (Argentina), in the southernmost continental area of the world, is one of the few permanent lakes in the region, providing a unique continuous paleoclimatic and paleoecological lacustrine record for the last glacial cycle. Previous multiproxy studies of this site have characterized the environmental history of these dry lands in the Patagonian Steppe for the last 16 cal. ka BP. This new series of sediment cores provides a much longer record of climate variability in Southern Patagonia since 51.3 cal. ka BP. Using a multiproxy strategy, a set of samples (mostly from core catcher material) was analyzed for physical properties, rock magnetism, geochemistry, CNS elemental analysis, stable isotopes, pollen and diatoms. This preliminary multiproxy limnogeological interpretation sheds new light on the regional Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history, revealing lake-level variations through time and identifying time windows of interest where higher resolution analyses will be carried out. Keywords diatoms, geochemistry, lacustrine sediments, physical properties, pollen, rock magnetism, stable isotopes Received 21 February 2011; revised manuscript accepted 1 October 2011 Introduction High-resolution paleolimnological studies in southern Patagonia During this drilling campaign, more than 500 m of sediment cores are relatively scarce though essential for understanding paleocli- were retrieved from the center of Laguna Potrok Aike. Such a long matic evolution of South America and its relationship to both record is unique for this area and is a very valuable tool to better Northern Hemisphere and Antarctic climate variability (e.g. Ariz- tegui et al., 2008). Previous paleolimnological investigations in 1University of Geneva, Switzerland southern Patagonia include multiproxy studies of Lago Cardiel, 2Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany 49°S (Gilli et al., 2001; Markgraf et al., 2003); Laguna Azul, 52°S 3Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, (Mayr et al., 2005); Laguna Las Vizcachas 50°S (Fey et al., 2009); Argentina 4 Lago Fagnano, 55°S (Moy et al., 2011; Waldmann et al., 2009) Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany 5University of Bremen, Germany and Laguna Potrok Aike, 52°S (Haberzettl et al., 2005, 2006, 6Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), and GEOTOP Research 2007, 2009; Mayr et al., 2007a, 2009; Wille et al., 2007) which is Centre, Canada the object of this study. These investigations illustrate the power 7Research Center Jülich, Germany of multiproxy paleolimnological research in tackling outstanding 8University of Buenos Aires, Argentina questions dealing with the late-Quaternary environmental evolu- 9Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and University of tion of southernmost South America and their comparison with Munich, Germany marine and Antarctic studies. The latter will allow a better under- 10University of Cologne, Germany standing of the Southern Hemispheric paleoclimate trends and 11List of members available from http://www.icdp-online.org/ their input into the global climate system. front_content.php?idcat=1494 An international research group participated in 2008 in the Corresponding author: ‘Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project’ Cristina Recasens, Université de Genève, Rue des Maraichers 13, (PASADO, expedition No. 5022) within the framework of the Geneva 1205, Switzerland. ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program). Email: [email protected] Downloaded from hol.sagepub.com at UNIVERSITAETSBIBLIOTHEK on December 2, 2013 1324 The Holocene 22(11) Figure 1. Bathymetric map of Laguna Potrok Aike with a 10 m contour interval superimposed to an aerial photograph showing the position of the drilling sites and the relative position of the different cores at each site. Insert on the left shows the geographical location on a world map (modified from Ohlendorf et al., 2011). characterize climate and environmental changes since the Late Andes, results in less than 300 mm of precipitation per year (Mayr Pleistocene. In this contribution we present preliminary multi- et al., 2007b). Climate in the area is characterized by strong west- proxy data (mostly from core catcher samples) to provide a first erly winds, constituting more than 50% of the wind directions and hint on the different processes ruling sedimentation, magnetic reaching mean annual wind speeds of 4.6 m/s in summer (Mayr grains, organic matter and pollen provenance, as well as diatom et al., 2007a, b). Such strong winds prevent a stratification of the lake assemblages. These data permit to outline a preliminary interpreta- water body, thus leading to polymictic conditions, and impeding the tion of environmental changes in the lake and its catchment area. development of an ice cover in winter. Both subaerial and sub- merged paleoshorelines are witnesses of significant lake level vari- ations in the past. A summary of the related hydrological dynamics Geographical and climatic setting based on these paleoshoreline reconstructions (Anselmetti et al., Laguna Potrok Aike is located at 52°S, 70°W in the province of 2009) documents a stepwise lake-level rise since 6.8 cal. ka BP and Santa Cruz, Argentina. This 770 ka old maar located in the Pali reconstructs the onset of drift deposits (and thus lake currents), Aike Volcanic Field is one of the few permanent lakes in this steppe variations in sedimentation rates, the occurrence of lateral mass- environment, providing a continuous sedimentary record over an flow events and lake-level fluctuations. This is supported by extended time span in this southernmost continental area of the sedimentological analyses of a 19 m long piston core recording world (Zolitschka et al., 2006). Laguna Potrok Aike has a maxi- environmental and climatic variations for the past 16 cal. ka BP mum diameter of 3.5 km and water depth reaches 100 m in the (Haberzettl et al., 2007; Mayr et al., 2009). center of the basin (Figure 1). The bowl shaped bathymetry reveals evidence of an older lake level low stand at −35 m water depth Sampling and analytical methods (Anselmetti et al., 2009; Haberzettl et al., 2008). The lake receives only occasional inflow through several canyons and currently has Drilling operations and sampling no surface outflow (Zolitschka et al., 2006). Its location in the dry A total of 533 m of sediment cores was recovered from Laguna Patagonian Steppe, characterized by the rain shadow effect of the Potrok Aike at two different sites during drilling operations in the Downloaded from hol.sagepub.com at UNIVERSITAETSBIBLIOTHEK on December 2, 2013 Recasens et al. 1325 austral late winter/spring of 2008 (Zolitschka et al., 2009). Cor- Rock magnetic data from the CC samples provide preliminary ing was achieved with the GLAD800 coring system, operated by information both on magnetic mineralogy and grain size. The DOSECC (Consortium for Drilling, Observation and Sampling hysteresis loop is a unique manifestation of ferromagnetic sensu of the Earth’s Continental Crust) using mainly a Hydraulic Piston lato material, and the shape of the loop reflects the magnetic min- Corer (HPC) tool. Drill Site 1, located in the center of the lake, eralogy, the
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