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Fluvial Deposition, El Nino And Landscape Construction In Northern Coastal Peru, Paul M. Pluta
Fluvial Deposition, El Nino And Landscape Construction In Northern Coastal Peru, Paul M. Pluta
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The El Nino global climate anomaly is a major cause of weather variation that can have far-reaching effects on human populations around the world. Northern coastal Peru is an area of historically major impacts where strong El Nino events have resulted in catastrophic flooding and mass wasting, leading to significant social disruption. There is a growing body of literature on the prehistoric chronology of El Nino and how it affected human populations of the past, but more work is needed. In order to address the timing and characteristics of past El Nino events I investigated the alluvial sedimentary sequences at …
Reconstructing Late Holocene Hydrographic Variability Of The Gulf Of Maine, Nina Millicent Whitney
Reconstructing Late Holocene Hydrographic Variability Of The Gulf Of Maine, Nina Millicent Whitney
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I present an annually resolved reconstruction of seawater temperatures in the
western North Atlantic from 1695-1915. This paleoclimate record was constructed
using oxygen isotopes measured in precisely dated Arctica islandica shells collected
off of Seguin Island in the western Gulf of Maine. The temperature reconstruction
was derived from this oxygen isotope time series using a modern d18Ow-salinity
mixing line developed for coastal waters in the Gulf of Maine from water samples
collected over the last decade. The d18Ow and salinity composition of these water
samples indicate that coastal surface waters consist of a …