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Holocene Paleohydrology of the Tropical Andes from Lake Records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Mark B. Abbott ,
Geoffrey O. Seltzer ,
Kerry R. Kelts  and
John Southon
Mark B. Abbott
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Box 35820, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01003-5820
Geoffrey O. Seltzer
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 13244-1070
Kerry R. Kelts
Affiliation:
Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, 220 Pillsbury Hall, 310 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455
John Southon
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-397, Livermore, California, 94551-9900
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Abstract

Two century-scale time series in northern Bolivia constrain the ages of abrupt changes in the physical, geochemical, and biological characteristics of sediments obtained from lakes that formed during deglaciation from the late Pleistocene glacial maximum. The watersheds of Laguna Viscachani (16°12′S, 68°07′W, 3780 m) and Lago Taypi Chaka Kkota (16°13′S, 68°21′W, 4300 m), located on the eastern and western slopes of the Cordillera Real, respectively, contain small cirque glaciers. A high-resolution chronology of the lake sediments is provided by 23 AMS14C dates of discrete macrofossils. Late Pleistocene glaciers retreated rapidly, exposing the lake basins between 10,700 and 970014C yr B.P. The sedimentary facies suggest that after 890014C yr B.P. glaciers were absent from the watersheds and remained so during the middle Holocene. An increase in the precipitation–evaporation balance is indicated above unconformities dated to ∼230014C yr B.P. in both Lago Taypi Chaka Kkota and Laguna Viscachani. An abrupt increase in sediment accumulation rates after 140014C yr B.P. signals the onset of Neoglaciation. A possible link exists between the observed millennial-scale shifts in the regional precipitation–evaporation balance and seasonal shifts in tropical insolation.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 70 - 80
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University of Washington

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