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A Holocene pollen-inferred climate reconstruction for Vermont, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2023

Laurie D. Grigg*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont 05663
Ioana C. Stefanescu
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071
Bryan N. Shuman
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071
W. Wyatt Oswald
Affiliation:
Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts 02116
*
*Corresponding author: Laurie D. Grigg; E-mail: lgrigg@norwich.edu

Abstract

A 13.0 cal ka BP pollen record from Twin Ponds, Vermont, provides new insights into the climate history of the northeastern United States. Modern analogs were used to produce qualitative and quantitative climate reconstructions for Twin Ponds. The Twin Ponds record was compared with nearby Knob Hill Pond to develop a Vermont reconstruction that was compared with reconstructions from two sites at a similar latitude. Postglacial warming at 11.5 cal ka BP followed a cool, wet Younger Dryas and was the largest temperature change of the record. The warmest, driest conditions occurred at ca. 9.0 cal ka BP, followed by an increase in moisture. Latitudinal and elevational shifts in the location of modern analogs from 5.7 to 4.0 cal ka BP were used to infer cooling and increased moisture during the Tsuga canadensis decline. Analysis of the timing of pollen events between the two Vermont sites suggests a more rapid decline in T. canadensis at the more northern Knob Hill Pond and further supports the possibility that colder temperatures contributed to this event. The other northern sites show similar trends until 2.5 cal ka BP, when precipitation in the easternmost site diverges, indicating the establishment of modern climatic gradients.

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