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Synchronization of late-glacial vegetation changes at Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA with the North Atlantic Event Stratigraphy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Leila M. Gonzales  and
Eric C. Grimm
Leila M. Gonzales*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Eric C. Grimm
Affiliation:
Illinois State Museum, Research & Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, IL 62703, USA
*
⁎Corresponding author. Fax: +1 240 477 8086.

E-mail address:lgonzales@wisc.edu (L.M. Gonzales).

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Abstract

Late-glacial (17–11 cal ka BP) pollen records from midwestern North America show similar vegetation trends; however, poor dating resolution, wide-interval pollen counts, and variable sedimentation rates have prevented the direct correlation with the North Atlantic Event Stratigraphy as represented in the Greenland ice-core records, thus preventing the understanding of the teleconnections and mechanisms of late-Quaternary events in the Northern Hemisphere. The widespread occurrence of late-glacial vegetation and climates with no modern analogs also hinders late-glacial climate reconstructions. A high-resolution pollen record with a well-controlled age model from Crystal Lake in northeastern Illinois reveals vegetation and climate conditions during the late-glacial and early Holocene intervals. Late-glacial Crystal Lake pollen assemblages, dominated by Picea mariana and Fraxinus nigra with lesser amounts of Abies and Larix, suggest relatively wet climate despite fluctuations between colder and warmer temperatures. Vegetation changes at Crystal Lake are coeval with millennial-scale trends in the NGRIP ice-core record, but major shifts in vegetation at Crystal Lake lag the NGRIP record by 300–400 yr. This lag may be due to the proximity of the Laurentide ice sheet, the ice sheet's inherent slowness in response to rapid climate changes, and its effect on frontal boundary conditions and lake-effect temperatures.

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Crystal LakeIllinoisPollenLate-glacialMidwestern United StatesNo-analog vegetation
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Quaternary Research , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , September 2009 , pp. 234 - 245
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University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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