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- Title
Hillslope and vegetation response to postglacial warming at Bear Meadows Bog, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Authors
Del Vecchio, Joanmarie; Ivory, Sarah J.; Mount, Gregory J.; Leddy, Matthew; DiBiase, Roman A.
- Abstract
Connecting changes in erosion and vegetation is necessary for predicting topographic and ecologic change in thawing permafrost landscapes. Formerly periglacial landscapes serve as potential analogs for understanding modern permafrost landscape change, yet compared to paleoenvironmental records at these sites, less is known about concurrent geomorphic processes, particularly their rates and relationships to climate change. Here, we target sediments preserved in a central Appalachian peat bog to reconstruct sedimentation across the last deglacial warming. We use ground-penetrating radar and geochemistry of cored bog sediments to quantify sedimentation timing, style, and provenance. Using 14C dating of sedimentary and geochemical shifts, we connect depositional changes to global climate and local vegetation change. We show that deglacial warming promoted deep soil disturbances via solifluction at ca. 14 ka. In contrast, relatively wetter conditions from ca. 10–9 ka promoted shallow disturbance of hillslopes via slopewash, which corresponds to a time of vegetation change. Our results highlight climate-modulated erosion depth and processes in periglacial and post-periglacial landscapes. The existence of similar erosion and vegetation records preserved regionally implies these dynamics were pervasive across unglaciated Appalachian highlands, aiding in reconstructing erosion responses to warming at a resolution with implications for predicting high-latitude landscape responses to disturbance.
- Subjects
APPALACHIAN Region; PENNSYLVANIA; GEOCHEMISTRY; PEAT bogs; SOLIFLUCTION; VEGETATION dynamics; GROUND penetrating radar; PERIGLACIAL processes; BOGS; EROSION
- Publication
Quaternary Research, 2024, Vol 117, p79
- ISSN
0033-5894
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/qua.2023.60