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Middle to Late Holocene lake level variations recorded by shoreline tufa of Longmu Co Lake, northwestern Tibet Plateau.

Authors

Lin, Xu; Lan, Jianghu; Sun, Youbin; Sinha, Ashish; Cheng, Xing; Lin, Fangyuan; Zhang, Jin; Li, Yanzhen; Cheng, Peng; Chang, Hong; Hussain, Syed Asim; Wang, Le; Tan, Liangcheng

Abstract

Tufa deposits have significant potential for reconstructing past lake-level fluctuations. Here, we conducted U-Th dating of tufa deposits exposed along the shoreline of Longmu Co Lake in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau to reconstruct its water level history during the middle-late Holocene. Our data demonstrate that Longmu Co Lake reached its highest level (61 m above the present level) at around 7.4 ka in response to the strengthened Indian Summer Monsoon and increased glacial meltwater; its lake level subsequently decreased due to solar insolation-induced decline in summer monsoon and glacial meltwater. Moreover, we find that the lake level experienced an abrupt decline at ~2.2 ka with a maximum amplitude of 13 m, probably owing to the rapid cooling of the local climate. The δ18O and δ13C of Longmu Co tufa also show a covariance trend, which supports the regional climate change reflected by the lake level fluctuation of Longmu Co. Additionally, we observed an inverse correlation between initial δ234U content in tufa and lake level variation, suggesting that initial calcium δ234U can serve as a proxy for reconstructing environmental changes. Our study therefore implies that lake tufa as a reliable archive for accurately reconstructing lake level changes.

Subjects

TIBETAN Plateau; WATER levels; TUFAS; INVERSE relationships (Mathematics); MELTWATER; HOLOCENE Epoch

Publication

Holocene, 2024, Vol 34, Issue 9, p1242

ISSN

0959-6836

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1177/09596836241254474

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