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Research article
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24 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 24 Mar 2016
Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia)
Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, School of Geography,
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, British Geological Survey,
Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
Melanie J. Leng
Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, School of Geography,
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, British Geological Survey,
Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
Alexander Francke
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, 50674
Cologne, Germany
Hilary J. Sloane
NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, British Geological Survey,
Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
Antoni Milodowski
British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
Hendrik Vogel
Institute of Geological Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Henrike Baumgarten
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, 30655 Hanover, Germany
Giovanni Zanchetta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Bernd Wagner
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, 50674
Cologne, Germany
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We use stable isotope data from carbonates to provide a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction covering the last 637 kyr at Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania). Our results indicate a relatively stable climate until 450 ka, wetter climate conditions at 400–250 ka, and a transition to a drier climate after 250 ka. This work emphasises the importance of Lake Ohrid as a valuable archive of climate change in the northern Mediterranean region.
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