scholarly journals Late Holocene lake-level and lake development signals in Lower Herring Lake, Michigan

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
JulieA. Wolin
Keyword(s):  
Lake Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Lake Development

Dominance of an ∼150-Year Cycle of Sand-Supply Change in Late Holocene Dune-Building along the Eastern Shore of Lake Michigan

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 414-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter L. Loope ◽  
Alan F. Arbogast
Keyword(s):  
Lake Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Buried Soils ◽  
Lake Levels ◽  
Eastern Shore ◽  
Soil Burial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sand Supply

Outcrops of buried soils on lake-plains and glacial headlands along Lake Michigan's eastern shore suggest that periodic dune-building has occurred there after relatively long (≥100 yr) periods of low sand supply. We located, described, and radiocarbon dated 75 such buried soils that crop out in 32 coastal dune fields beside the lake. We assume that peaks in probability distributions of calibrated 14C ages obtained from wood, charcoal, and other organic matter from buried A horizons approximate the time of soil burial by dunes. Plotted against a late Holocene lake-level curve for Lake Michigan, these peaks are closely associated with many ∼150-yr lake highstands previously inferred from beach ridge studies. Intervening periods of lower lake levels and relative sand starvation apparently permitted forestation and soil development at the sites we studied. While late Holocene lake-level change led to development and preservation of prominent foredunes along the southern and southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, the modern dune landscape of the eastern shore is dominated by perched dunes formed during ∼150-yr lake highstands over the past 1500 yr.

n-Alkane evidence for the onset of wetter conditions in the Sierra Nevada, California (USA) at the mid-late Holocene transition, ~ 3.0 ka

2013 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Street ◽  
R. Scott Anderson ◽  
Robert J. Rosenbauer ◽  
Adina Paytan
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Aquatic Plants ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Lake Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Plant Community Composition ◽  
Region Length ◽  
North Pacific Region ◽  
Chain Lengths ◽  
Plant Sources

Abstractn-Alkane biomarker distributions in sediments from Swamp Lake (SL), in the central Sierra Nevada of California (USA), provide evidence for an increase in mean lake level ~ 3000 yr ago, in conjunction with widespread climatic change inferred from marine and continental records in the eastern North Pacific region. Length distributions of n-alkane chains in modern plants growing at SL were determined and compared to sedimentary distributions in a core spanning the last 13 ka. As a group, submerged and floating aquatic plants contained high proportions of short chain lengths (< nC25) compared to emergent, riparian and upland terrestrial species, for which chain lengths > nC27 were dominant. Changes in the sedimentary n-alkane distribution over time were driven by variable inputs from plant sources in response to changing lake level, sedimentation and plant community composition. A shift toward shorter chain lengths (nC21,nC23) occurred between 3.1 and 2.9 ka and is best explained by an increase in the abundance of aquatic plants and the availability of shallow-water habitat in response to rising lake level. The late Holocene expansion of SL following a dry mid-Holocene is consistent with previous evidence for increased effective moisture and the onset of wetter conditions in the Sierra Nevada between 4.0 and 3.0 ka.

Late-Holocene Formation of Lake Michigan Beach Ridges Correlated with a 70-yr Oscillation in Global Climate

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Delcourt ◽  
William H. Petty ◽  
Hazel R. Delcourt
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Temperature Oscillation ◽  
Beach Ridges ◽  
Climate Fluctuations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Atmosphere System ◽  
Centennial Time Scale

AbstractA radiocarbon-dated series of 75 beach ridges, formed at regular intervals averaging 72 yr over the past 5400 yr, provides further support for the existence of a 70-yr oscillation in Northern Hemisphere climate, postulated recently from instrument data representing less than two cycles of this climate oscillation. Results from this study lend support to the interpretation that internal variations in the ocean–atmosphere system are an important factor in climate fluctuations on a decadal–centennial time scale. A temperature oscillation with a period of about 70 yr has been a previously unrecognized but fundamental part of the global climate system since at least the middle Holocene.

Glacial-Lake Outburst Erosion of the Grand Valley, Michigan, and Impacts on Glacial Lakes in the Lake Michigan Basin

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan E. Kehew
Keyword(s):  
Lake Level ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Laurentide Ice Sheet ◽  
Glacial Lake ◽  
Michigan Basin ◽  
Lake Agassiz ◽  
Lake Algonquin ◽  
Lake Michigan Lobe ◽  
Possible Cause ◽  
Glacial Lake Algonquin

AbstractGeomorphic and sedimentologic evidence in the Grand Valley, which drained the retreating Saginaw Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and later acted as a spillway between lakes in the Huron and Erie basins and in the Michigan basin, suggests that at least one drainage event from glacial Lake Saginaw to glacial Lake Chicago was a catastrophic outburst that deeply incised the valley. Analysis of shoreline and outlet geomorphology at the Chicago outlet supports J H Bretz's hypothesis of episodic incision and lake-level change. Shoreline features of each lake level converge to separate outlet sills that decrease in elevation from the oldest to youngest lake phases. This evidence, coupled with the presence of boulder lags and other features consistent with outburst origin, suggests that the outlets were deepened by catastrophic outbursts at least twice. The first incision event is correlated with a linked series of floods that progressed from Huron and Erie basin lakes to glacial Lake Saginaw to glacial Lake Chicago and then to the Mississippi. The second downcutting event occurred after the Two Rivers Advance of the Lake Michigan Lobe. Outbursts from the eastern outlets of glacial Lake Agassiz to glacial Lake Algonquin are a possible cause for this period of downcutting at the Chicago outlets.

scholarly journals Late Pleistocene to present lake-level fluctuations at Pyramid and Winnemucca lakes, Nevada, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Adams ◽  
Edward J. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
River Discharge ◽  
Lake Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Level Curve ◽  
Dry Period ◽  
Volume Changes ◽  
Hydrologic Variability ◽  
State Changes

AbstractA new lake-level curve for Pyramid and Winnemucca lakes, Nevada, is presented that indicates that after the ~15,500 cal yr BP Lake Lahontan high stand (1338 m), lake level fell to an elevation below 1200 m, before rising to 1230 m at the 12,000 cal yr BP Younger Dryas high stand. Lake level then fell to 1155 m by ~10,500 cal yr BP followed by a rise to 1200 m around 8000 cal yr BP. During the mid-Holocene, levels were relatively low (~1155 m) before rising to moderate levels (1190–1195 m) during the Neopluvial period (~4800–3400 cal yr BP). Lake level again plunged to about 1155 m during the late Holocene dry period (~2800–1900 cal yr BP) before rising to about 1190 m by ~1200 cal yr BP. Levels have since fluctuated within the elevation range of about 1170–1182 m except for the last 100 yr of managed river discharge when they dropped to as low as 1153 m. Late Holocene lake-level changes correspond to volume changes between 25 and 55 km3 and surface area changes between 450 and 900 km2. These lake state changes probably encompass the hydrologic variability possible under current climate boundary conditions.

scholarly journals Late Holocene landscape change history related to the Alpine Fault determined from drowned forests in Lake Poerua, Westland, New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2051-2064 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Langridge ◽  
R. Basili ◽  
L. Basher ◽  
A. P. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Lake Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Alluvial Fan ◽  
Time Of Death ◽  
Fault Rupture ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Living Tree ◽  
Alpine Fault ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lowland Forests

Abstract. Lake Poerua is a small, shallow lake that abuts the scarp of the Alpine Fault on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Radiocarbon dates from drowned podocarp trees on the lake floor, a sediment core from a rangefront alluvial fan, and living tree ring ages have been used to deduce the late Holocene history of the lake. Remnant drowned stumps of kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) at 1.7–1.9 m water depth yield a preferred time-of-death age at 1766–1807 AD, while a dryland podocarp and kahikatea stumps at 2.4–2.6 m yield preferred time-of-death ages of ca. 1459–1626 AD. These age ranges are matched to, but offset from, the timings of Alpine Fault rupture events at ca. 1717 AD, and either ca. 1615 or 1430 AD. Alluvial fan detritus dated from a core into the toe of a rangefront alluvial fan, at an equivalent depth to the maximum depth of the modern lake (6.7 m), yields a calibrated age of AD 1223–1413. This age is similar to the timing of an earlier Alpine Fault rupture event at ca. 1230 AD ± 50 yr. Kahikatea trees growing on rangefront fans give ages of up to 270 yr, which is consistent with alluvial fan aggradation following the 1717 AD earthquake. The elevation levels of the lake and fan imply a causal and chronological link between lake-level rise and Alpine Fault rupture. The results of this study suggest that the growth of large, coalescing alluvial fans (Dry and Evans Creek fans) originating from landslides within the rangefront of the Alpine Fault and the rise in the level of Lake Poerua may occur within a decade or so of large Alpine Fault earthquakes that rupture adjacent to this area. These rises have in turn drowned lowland forests that fringed the lake. Radiocarbon chronologies built using OxCal show that a series of massive landscape changes beginning with fault rupture, followed by landsliding, fan sedimentation and lake expansion. However, drowned Kahikatea trees may be poor candidates for intimately dating these events, as they may be able to tolerate water for several decades after metre-scale lake level rises have occurred.

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