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Speleothem evidence of warm episodes in northeast France during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 and implications for permafrost distribution in northern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Edwige Pons-Branchu ,
Bruno Hamelin ,
Benoit Losson ,
Stephane Jaillet  and
Jacques Brulhet
Edwige Pons-Branchu*
Affiliation:
CEREGE, Université Aix-Marseille III/CNRS UMR 6635, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France LSCE/IPSL Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'environnement, UMR CEA/CNRS/UVSQ 8212, CEA Orme les Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
Bruno Hamelin
Affiliation:
CEREGE, Université Aix-Marseille III/CNRS UMR 6635, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France
Benoit Losson
Affiliation:
Centre d'Études Géographiques de l'Université de Metz (CEGUM), Ile du Saulcy, BP 30309, 57006 Metz Cedex 1, France
Stephane Jaillet
Affiliation:
EDYTEM, Université de Savoie, CISM, Campus Scientifique F-73376 Le Bourget du Lac Cedex, France
Jacques Brulhet
Affiliation:
ANDRA, 1/7 rue Jean Monnet, Parc de La Croix Blanche. 92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: edwige.pons-branchu@lsce.ipsl.fr
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Abstract

U–Th ages have been obtained by TIMS on the growth periods of a stalagmite from the “Grotte des Puits de Pierre-la-Treiche” (northeastern France), during the middle part of the “Weichselian glaciation” (Marine Isotope Stage 3), between 55.36 ± 0.95 and 53.34 ± 0.49 ka and around 45.85 ± 0.49 ka. These episodes are contemporaneous with abrupt climatic variations recorded in Greenland ice cores (Greenland interstadials 12, 14 and 15) that have been previously recognized in European speleothems. They also coincide with two interstadials, known as “Goulotte” and “Pile” in the Grande Pile pollen sequence (eastern France), which have been correlated with the Moershoofd complex in the Netherlands. Such evidence of speleothem deposition related to temperate episodes gives a strong indication of the absence of continuous shallow permafrost during the middle part of MIS 3 in northeastern France.

Keywords

SpeleothemsPaleoclimateWeichselian glaciationPermafrostMIS3
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Short Paper
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Quaternary Research , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , September 2010 , pp. 246 - 251
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University of Washington

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