NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana Late Quaternary Magnetic Mineral Data
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abstract: This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Lake. The data include parameters of paleolimnology with a geographic location of Ghana, Western Africa. The time period coverage is from 26655 to 152 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.
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title: A magnetic mineral record of Late Quaternary tropical climate variability from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana
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supplementalInformation: STUDY NOTES: Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana (6°30'N, 1°25'W, 99m. elev.). In June, 2000, 19 piston cores were extracted from Lake Bosumtwi. Eight short piston cores (1N-8N), ranging from 108 to 134 cm in length, were used to capture the sediment-water interface. These cores were supplemented by two freeze cores obtained from the deepest portion of the lake. The remaining 11 longer cores, ranging from 5.5 to 10.9 m in length, did not preserve the sediment-water interface, but were correlated with the shorter cores using well-defined marker bands. Physical property logging of whole core volumetric magnetic susceptibility and gammaray attenuation (an estimation of wet bulk density) was conducted on the piston cores using an automated Geotek multisensor core logger. ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: We report magnetic hysteresis results from sediment cores obtained from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana. As a hydrologically closed basin, the water budget of Lake Bosumtwi is extremely sensitive to changes in the precipitation/evapotranspiration balance. Lake Bosumtwi lies in the path of the seasonal migration of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ); hence, the lake is ideally situated to study monsoon variability in West Africa. Five distinctive magnetic mineral zones (A-E) were identified in the 11-m-long sediment cores that span the last 26,000 calendar years. Prior to 12 calendar (cal) ka, low concentrations of multidomain, high-coercivity magnetic minerals are present. Three prominent shifts towards very high concentrations of high-coercivity iron sulfide (greigite) magnetic minerals are centered at 12,470, 17,290, and 22,600 calendar years during the last glacial period (magnetic zones D1-3). Between 12 and 3.2 cal ka, there is an abrupt shift to moderately high concentrations of mixed multidomain and single-domain, low-coercivity minerals and an organic-rich sapropel lithology. Since 3.2 cal ka, the magnetic mineral parameters reveal a shift to increased amounts of high-coercivity magnetic minerals. These magnetic mineral zones document tropical climate variability on a variety of temporal scales. Glacial age sediments have a high-coercivity magnetic mineralogy due to increased aeolian dust transport from the Sahel to Lake Bosumtwi as well as postdepositional reductive diagenesis. During the last glacial period, the increased strength of Harmattan and North African continental trade winds, the southward depression of the ITCZ, and weakened summer monsoon strength resulted in increased regional aridity and greater dust flux out of Sahel source regions. The greigite-bearing D magnetic zones correspond to brief lowstands in the level of Lake Bosumtwi and likely represent periods of intensified aridity in West Africa. The D magnetic zones closely resemble the timing and duration of Heinrich events and suggest a hemispheric-scale climatic coupling between the tropics and poles. The well-documented African humid period (AHP) is characterized by abrupt shifts in magnetic parameters between 12 and 3.2 cal ka. Dust flux to Lake Bosumtwi is inferred to be very low during this humid interval due to the strengthening of the summer monsoon. Since 3.2 cal ka, the magnetic mineral parameters suggest increased aridity as compared to the AHP. This work demonstrates that the magnetic properties of Lake Bosumtwi sediment are a sensitive recorder of abrupt climate change of global significance.
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