Climate-driven hydrologic transients in lake sediment records: Multiproxy record of mid-Holocene drought

Alison J. Smith; Joseph J. Donovan; Emi Ito; Daniel R. Engstrom; Valerie A. Panek

doi:10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00041-5

Climate-driven hydrologic transients in lake sediment records: Multiproxy record of mid-Holocene drought

Alison J. Smith, Joseph J. Donovan, Emi Ito, Daniel R. Engstrom, Valerie A. Panek

Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities

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Oxygen and carbon isotopes, trace element concentrations, and ostracode paleoecology are used with ground water flow modeling to assess the magnitude of climate-driven hydrologic changes during mid-Holocene time for Elk Lake, Grant County, Minnesota. During mid-Holocene time, two extended droughts were recorded in the sediment record from Elk Lake at 5385 and 5221 calendar yr BP. A drop in lake level to 14.9 m below the 1994 level and 10.0 m below the maximum 1930s decline at about 5385 calendar yr BP is interpreted for Elk Lake and its water table, based on Heterocypris fretensis occurrence and higher δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C, and Mg/Ca values. Numerical modeling suggests this "low-water" event could have resulted from conditions drier than those of the 1930s drought, sustained over a time frame of approximately a century. The later drought event at approximately 5221 calendar yr BP is marked by a shift in the dominant source of water to Elk Lake from surface run-off to ground water from the till aquifer. The shift in source water is identified by lower δ¹⁸O values and the presence of Limnocythere staplini. Estimates of climatic sensitivity for Holocene lakes should not be directly based on modern conditions, but must take into account the changing shape of the lake basin through time and its effect on the paleohydrology.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	625-646
Number of pages	22
Journal	Quaternary Science Reviews
Volume	21
Issue number	4-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00041-5
State	Published - 2002

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This research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Hydrologic Sciences grant EAR-9304741. The stable isotope analyses (Ito) were funded in part by grants from the NSF (BIR-9014277 and EAR-9406183) and the University of Minnesota. We thank Rick Forester (USGS) for helpful discussions. John Carney and Joan Puller (KSU), Brian Haskell, Eric Gong (UMN), and Red Westrum (Hoffman, MN) assisted in the field and the lab. We thank Walt Dean (USGS) and an anonymous reviewer for helping to improve this paper. This is a PRAIRIE ( P aleoecological R econstructions of A ridity: I nterdisciplinary R esearch I nitiativ E ) contribution, and LRC contribution 581.

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