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Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) based on geochemistry and mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments
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: Received: 29 August 2024 / Approved: 29 August 2024 / Online: 29 August 2024 (15:45:54 CEST)
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Ilijanić, N.; Miko, S.; Hasan, O.; Brunović, D.; Miko, M. Š.; Mesić, S. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) based on geochemistry and mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments. Preprints2024, 2024082193. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.2193.v1
Ilijanić, N.; Miko, S.; Hasan, O.; Brunović, D.; Miko, M. Š.; Mesić, S. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) based on geochemistry and mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments. Preprints 2024, 2024082193. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.2193.v1
Ilijanić, N.; Miko, S.; Hasan, O.; Brunović, D.; Miko, M. Š.; Mesić, S. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) based on geochemistry and mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments. Preprints2024, 2024082193. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.2193.v1
APA Style
Ilijanić, N., Miko, S., Hasan, O., Brunović, D., Miko, M. Š., & Mesić, S. (2024). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) based on geochemistry and mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.2193.v1
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Ilijanić, N., Martina Šparica Miko and Saša Mesić. 2024 "Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres (Croatia) based on geochemistry and mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.2193.v1
Abstract
A 7.4 m long sediment core has been retrieved from the central part of Lake Vrana on the Island of Cres to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental conditions. Lake Vrana is the deepest freshwater lake in Croatia, located in the karst region of the eastern Adriatic coast. A dated sediment sequence in Lake Vrana of 4.4 m spans the past 16.4 kyr, and features a dynamic sediment deposition until the beginning of the Holocene, including strong sediment input and supply to the lake by runoff sediments of dolomitic origin from the catchment in the period 16.4-14.4 cal kyr BP. High organic carbon content, which originates from mixed terrestrial and aquatic origins in the periods 14.4-13.3 cal kyr BP and 12.7-11.7 cal kyr BP, indicates fluctuating lake levels in shallow water environments during the late glacial to Holocene transition. The Holocene sequence indicates the development of more stable conditions and continuous sediment deposition, characterized by increasing trend of siliciclastic sediments delivered into the lake during the early Holocene (11.7-10 cal kyr BP), and dominantly from 8 to 4.4 cal kyr BP, indicating enhanced input and erosion, which coincides with humid and pluvial period, recorded in the central Mediterranean region. It is followed by sediments with high organic carbon content between 4.4 to 1.6 cal kyr BP, which points to higher lake productivity. Calcite sedimentation prevail between 1.6 to 0.4 cal kyr BP, indicating stable deeper-lake conditions, while dominantly siliciclastic sediments in the period 0.4-0.1 cal kyr BP indicate erosion during Little Ice Age (LIA), with enhanced precipitation and sediment discharge from the catchment. The re-establishment of calcite sedimentation has been observed over the last 100 years.
Keywords
karst lake; lake sediments; geochemistry; mineralogy; Late Pleistocene; Holocene; eastern Adriatic coast
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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