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Variations in Sediment Yield from the Upper Doubs River Carbonate Watershed (Jura, France) since the Late-Glacial Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Vincent Bichet ,
Michel Campy ,
Jean-François Buoncristiani ,
Christian Digiovanni ,
Michel Meybeck  and
Hervé Richard
Vincent Bichet
Affiliation:
UMR 5561 CNRS, Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Bourgogne, 6 boulevard Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France
Michel Campy
Affiliation:
UMR 5561 CNRS, Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Bourgogne, 6 boulevard Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France
Jean-François Buoncristiani
Affiliation:
UMR 5561 CNRS, Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Bourgogne, 6 boulevard Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France
Christian Digiovanni
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géologie-Environnement, Université de Tours, Parc Grandmont, 31200, Tours, France
Michel Meybeck
Affiliation:
URA 1367 CNRS, Laboratoire de Géologie Appliquée, Université de Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France
Hervé Richard
Affiliation:
UMR 9946 CNRS, Laboratoire de Chrono-Ecologie, Université de Franche-Comté, 16 route de Gray, 25030, Besançon cedex, France
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Abstract

The Upper Doubs River Valley is a 910-km2watershed feeding into Lake Chaillexon. The lake was formed by a natural rockfall at the end of the Bølling Chronozone (around 14,250 cal yr B.P.) and since then has trapped material eroded from the watershed. The filling process and variations in sediment yield have been investigated by mechanical coring, seismic surveys, and electric soundings. The detrital sediment yield of the upstream watershed can be calculated by quantifying the sedimentary stocks for each climatic stage of the Late-Glacial period and Holocene Epoch and estimating the lake's entrapment capacity. This enables us to determine the intensity of the erosion processes in relation to climate and environmental factors. The Bølling–Allerød Interstade produced the greatest yields with mean values of 19,500 metric tons per calendar year (t/yr). The Younger Dryas Chronozone saw a sharp fall (8900 t/yr) that continued into the Preboreal (2100 t/yr). Clastic supply increased during the Boreal (4500 t/yr) before declining again in the Early Atlantic (2400 t/yr). Since then, yields have risen from 4500 t/yr in the Late Atlantic to 6800 t/yr in the Subboreal and 11,100 t/yr in the Subatlantic. Comparison of quantitative data with the qualitative analysis of the deposits and with the paleohydrologic curve of the watershed based on level fluctuations in lakes around Chaillexon shows that climate was the controlling factor of sediment yield until the Late Atlantic. From the Late Atlantic–Subboreal around 5400 cal yr B.P. (470014C yr B.P.) and especially from the end of the Subboreal Chronozone and during the Subatlantic Chronozone (2770 cal yr B.P./270014C yr B.P.–present) climatic constraints have been compounded by human activity related to forest clearing and land use.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , May 1999 , pp. 267 - 279
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University of Washington

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