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Dyn NAP:
Dynamics of Mid-latitude / Mediterranean climate during the last 150 ka: Black Sea / Northern Anatolian Paleoen-vironmental Reconstructions

Duration:
01.05.2011 - 01.05.2013
Project coordinated by:
Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW)
Contact (IOW):
Prof. Dr. Helge Arz
Funding:
DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Partners:
University of Göttingen
University of Bern
During the first phase marine/limnic sediments from the southern part of the Black Sea as well as stalagmites from Sofular Cave were investigated. They provided excellent paleoenvironmental records of past vegetation dynamics and changing precipitation regimes in the Anatolian hinterland as well as paleoceanographic / paleolimnologic data of environmental changes in the marine / limnic Black Sea system itself during the Holocene, Eem and the last two glacial terminations. In a second phase, we plan to extend our study to additional marine sediment cores, a new set of surface samples from neighboring regions of the Black Sea, and stalagmites in order to get a better understanding of the observed environmental changes on the regional scale. We also plan to introduce modeling aspects on the environmental changes during the studied periods. This will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the far-field effects of North Atlantic climate and Indian monsoon system, the hydrological dynamics in the Black Sea during the glacial terminations 1 and 2 and the anthropogenic / climatic impacts during the Holocene.

Publikationen

  • Liu, J., N. Nowaczyk, U. Frank and H. Arz (2019). Geomagnetic paleosecular variation record spanning from 40 to 20 ka - implications for the Mono Lake excursion from Black Sea sediments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 509: 114-124, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.029
  • Jiabo, L., N. R. Nowaczyk, U. Frank and H. W. Arz (2018). A 20-15 ka high-resolution paleomagnetic secular variation record from Black Sea sediments - no evidence for the ‘Hilina Pali excursion’? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 492: 174-185, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.04.014
  • Wegwerth, A., S. Eckert, O. Dellwig, B. Schnetger, S. Severmann, S. Weyer, A. Brüske, J. Kaiser, J. Köster, H. W. Arz and H.-J. Brumsack (2018). Redox evolution during Eemian and Holocene sapropel formation in the Black Sea. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 489: 249-260, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.10.014
  • Wegwerth, A., O. Dellwig, J. Kaiser, G. Ménot, E. Bard, L. Shumilovskikh, B. Schnetger, I. C. Kleinhanns, M. Wille and H. W. Arz (2014). Meltwater events and the Mediterranean reconnection at the Saalian-Eemian transition in the Black Sea. Earth planet. sci. lett. 404: 124-135, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.07.030
  • Shumilovskikh, L. S., H. W. Arz, A. Wegwerth, D. Fleitmann, F. Marret, N. Nowaczyk, P. Tarasov and H. Behling (2013). Vegetation and environmental changes in Northern Anatolia between 134 and 119 ka recorded in Black Sea sediments. Quat. res. 80: 349-360, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2013.07.005
  • Shumilovskikh, L. S., D. Fleitmann, N. R. Nowaczyk, H. Behling, F. Marret, A. Wegwerth and H. W. Arz (2014). Orbital- and millennial-scale environmental changes between 64 and 20 ka BP recorded in Black Sea sediments. Clim. past 10: 939-954, doi:10.5194/cp-10-939-2014