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Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas

Autoři	REINIG Frederick WACKER Lukas JÖRIS Olaf OPPENHEIMER Clive GUIDOBALDI Giulia NIEVERGELT Daniel ADOLPHI Florian CHERUBINI Paolo ENGELS Stefan ESPER Jan LAND Alexander LANE Christine PFANZ Hardy REMMELE Sabine SIGL Michael SOOKDEO Adam BÜNTGEN Ulf
Rok publikování	2021
Druh	Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj	Nature
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU	Přírodovědecká fakulta
Citace
www	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x
Klíčová slova	Climate and Earth system modelling; Environmental impact; Geography; Palaeoclimate; Volcanology
Popis	The Laacher See eruption (LSE) in Germany ranks among Europe’s largest volcanic events of the Upper Pleistocene(1,2). Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an important isochron for the synchronization of proxy archives at the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition(3), uncertainty in the age of the eruption has prevailed(4). Here we present dendrochronological and radiocarbon measurements of subfossil trees that were buried by pyroclastic deposits that firmly date the LSE to 13,006 ± 9 calibrated years before present (BP; taken as AD 1950), which is more than a century earlier than previously accepted. The revised age of the LSE necessarily shifts the chronology of European varved lakes(5,6) relative to the Greenland ice core record, thereby dating the onset of the Younger Dryas to 12,807 ± 12 calibrated years BP, which is around 130 years earlier than thought. Our results synchronize the onset of the Younger Dryas across the North Atlantic–European sector, preclude a direct link between the LSE and Greenland Stadial-1 cooling(7), and suggest a large-scale common mechanism of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under warming conditions(8,9,10).