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    Publication Date: 2019-12-22
    Description: This paper presents a detailed record of volcanism extending back to ~80 kyr BP for southern South America using the sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike (ICDP expedition 5022; Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project - PASADO). Our analysis of tephra includes the morphology of glass, the mineral componentry, the abundance of glass-shards, lithics and minerals, and the composition of glass- shards in relation to the stratigraphy. Firstly, a reference database of glass compositions of known eruptions in the region was created to enable robust tephra correlations. This includes data published elsewhere, in addition to new glass-shard analyses of proximal tephra deposits from Hudson (eruption units H1 and H2), Aguilera (A1), Reclus (R1, R2-3), Mt Burney (MB1, MB2, MBx, MB1910) and historical Lautaro/Viedma deposits. The analysis of the ninety-four tephra layers observed in the Laguna Potrok Aike sedimentary sequence reveals that twenty-five tephra deposits in the record are the result of pri- mary fallout and are sourced from at least three different volcanoes in the Austral Andean Volcanic Zone (Mt Burney, Reclus, Lautaro/Viedma) and one in the southernmost Southern Volcanic Zone (Hudson). One new correlation to the widespread H1 eruption from Hudson volcano at 8.7 (8.6e9.0) cal ka BP during the Quaternary is identified. The identification of sixty-five discrete deposits that were pre- dominantly volcanic ashes (glass and minerals) with subtle characteristics of reworking (in addition to three likely reworked tephra, and one unknown layer) indicates that care must be taken in the analysis of both visible and invisible tephra layers to decipher their emplacement mechanisms.
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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    Publication Date: 2016-12-01
    Description: When using biomarkers such as n-alkanes as tools for paleo-environmental reconstructions, it is imperative to determine their specific sources for each setting. Towards that goal, we analysed a set of various potential organic matter (OM) sources such as aquatic and terrestrial plants, dust, and soils from Laguna Potrok Aike (LPA) and surrounding areas in Southern Patagonia. We determined chain length distributions and hydrogen (δD) and carbon (δ13C) isotopic compositions of n-alkanes of different OM sources in order to quantify their relative contributions to lake sediments. Our results reveal that mid-chain n-alkane, n-C23, is predominantly produced by submerged aquatic plants, whereas long-chain n-alkanes (n-C29 to n-C31) are derived from various terrestrial sources. We estimated their relative contributions to the sediment using two approaches, i.e. based on the n-alkane distributions and their δD and δ13C values. Both approaches result in similar estimates of aquatic and terrestrial contributions for mid- and long-chain n-alkanes to the sediment. 62-73% of the mid-chain n-C23 alkanes originate from aquatic sources while 66-77% of the long-chain n-alkanes originate from dust and 14-30% from terrestrial plants. Our study shows that mid-chain n-alkanes such as n-C23 alkane in LPA are derived mainly from aquatic macrophytes and thus have the potential to record changes in lake-water isotopic composition. In contrast, the n-C29 alkane reflects the isotopic signal of various terrestrial sources from Southern Patagonia.
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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    Publication Date: 2021-03-29
    Description: A high-resolution multiproxy geochemical approach was applied to the sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike in an attempt to reconstruct moist and dry periods during the past 16 000 years in southeastern Patagonia. The age–depth model is inferred from AMS 14C dates and tephrochronology, and suggests moist conditions during the Lateglacial and early Holocene (16 000–8700 cal. BP) interrupted by drier conditions before the beginning of the Holocene (13 200–11 400 cal. BP). Data also imply that this period was a major warm phase in southeastern Patagonia and was approximately contemporaneous with the Younger Dryas chronozone in the Northern Hemisphere (12 700–11 500 cal. BP). After 8650 cal. BP a major drought may have caused the lowest lake level of the record. Since 7300 cal. BP, the lake level rose and was variable until the ‘Little Ice Age’, which was the dominant humid period after 8650 cal. BP.
    Keywords: Holocene ; Younger Dryas ; Lateglacial ; `Little Ice Age' ; lacustrine sediments ; geochemistry ; tephrochronology ; multiproxy approach ; Patagonia ; Argentina. ; 551
    Language: English
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