% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Fey:6422, author = {Fey, M. and Korr, C. and Maidana, N. I. and Carrevedo, M.L. and Dietrich, S. and Corbella, H. and Haberzettl, T. and Kuhn, G. and Lücke, A. and Mayr, C. and Ohlendorf, C. and Schäbitz, F. and Zolitschka, B.}, title = {{P}alaeoenvironmental changes during the last 1600 years inferred from the sediment record of a cirque lake in southern {P}atagonia ({L}aguna {L}as {V}izcachas, {A}rgentina)}, journal = {Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology}, volume = {281}, issn = {0031-0182}, address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]}, publisher = {Elsevier Science}, reportid = {PreJuSER-6422}, year = {2009}, note = {The authors would like to express their thanks to the owner of Estancia Las Vizcachas for permitting access to the lake. The staff of INTA, Rio Gallegos are acknowledged for their assistance in organizing the logistics of the field work. We thank Sabine Stahl for assistance with sampling and geochemical analyses. We are much obliged to Thomas Frederichs and Christian Hilgenfeldt (Department of Marine Geophysics, University of Bremen) for access to their magnetic susceptibility measuring bench. Stephanie Janssen and Michael Wille are acknowledged for inspiring discussions and excellent collaboration in the SALSA-team. We thank Daniel Ariztegui and an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. An anonymous language editor is acknowledged for improvements in language and style of the English text. This is a contribution to the project "South Argentinean Lake Sediment Archives and modeling" (SALSA) within the framework of the German Climate Research Program DEKLIM (grants 01 LD 0034 and 0035) of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Additional financial support was provided by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the Priority Program 'ICDP' (grant ZO 102/5-1, 2, 3).}, abstract = {Laguna Las Vizcachas is a cirque lake located at the margin of an extra-Andean volcanic plateau in southern Patagonia, Argentina, within the area of steppe and semi-desert east of the Andes. The number of paleoenvironmental records is still limited in this region. Sediments of this lake were studied in order to obtain multi-proxy information about the paleoenvironmental history of this site for the 'Medieval Climate Anomaly' and the 'Little Ice Age' chronozones. In combination with results from other sites across southern Patagonia, our data enhance the understanding of spatial patterns of past hydrological changes and contribute to distinguishing between the signals of temperature and precipitation. As Laguna Las Vizcachas is situated at 1100 m a.s.l. in a cool 'mountain climate', the lake system is more sensitive to changes of temperature and winter ice cover than other sites from lower elevations in this region. Our interpretation of the multi-proxy dataset is based on signals of clastic sediment input, lake productivity, organic matter sources and preservation, dilution effects and early diagenetic overprint. The record reveals a period of enhanced fluvial runoff resulting from higher precipitation from the 12th until the end of the 14th century as inferred from high concentrations of Ti, Ca, and from magnetic susceptibility. This may coincide with higher wind intensities as suggested by higher proportions of epiphytic diatoms which point to an enhanced lateral transport from their littoral habitat towards the coring position at the center of the lake. in comparison with other records from southern Patagonia, the results from Laguna Las Vizcachas suggest opposite precipitation regimes between the western and eastern parts of Patagonia during that time which corresponds partly to the 'Medieval Climate Anomaly' chronozone. However, this proposal is compromised by the chronological uncertainties of the different records under consideration. The diatom record of Laguna Las Vizcachas indicates temperature changes: highest proportions of benthic diatoms point to coldest conditions from the mid-15th until the mid-17th century, followed by relatively warm conditions until the mid-18th century as suggested by a decrease of benthic taxa and a conspicuous rise of the planktonic/non-planktonic diatom ratio that can be used as an indicator for the length or presence/absence of winter ice cover. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.}, keywords = {J (WoSType)}, cin = {ICG-4}, ddc = {550}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB793}, pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt}, pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407}, shelfmark = {Geography, Physical / Geosciences, Multidisciplinary / Paleontology}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, UT = {WOS:000271364500015}, doi = {10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.01.012}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/6422}, }