Biomarkers reveal two paramount Pliocene-Pleistocene connectivity events in the Caspian Sea Basin
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- Vasiliev, Iuliana Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main
- van der Meer, Marcel T.J. Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, Texel
- Stoica, Marius Bucharest University
- Krijgsman, Wout Utrecht University
- Reichart, Gert-Jan Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, Texel
- Lazarev, Sergei University of Fribourg
- Butiseacă, Geanina A. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main
- Niedermeyer, Eva M. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main
- Aliyeva, Elmira Geological Institute of Azerbaijan, Baku
- van Baak, Christian G.C. CASP, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Mulch, Andreas Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main
- 20.12.2021
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- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. - Elsevier BV. - 2022, vol. 587, p. 110802
Paleontology
Earth-Surface Processes
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics
Oceanography
South Caspian Basin
Pleistocene
Hydrogen isotopes
Palaeohydrology
N-alkanes
Akchagylian marine incursion
Black Sea influx
English
Landlocked basins like the Caspian Sea are highly sensitive to changes in their hydrological budget, especially at times of disconnection from the global ocean. Here, we reconstruct the Pliocene to Pleistocene palaeohydrological and palaeoenvironmental changes occurring in the South Caspian Basin between ~3.6 and ~ 1.9 Ma, using compound-specific hydrogen isotope (δ 2 H) data on long chain n-alkanes and alkenones. Additionally, we established a record of mean annual air temperature (MAT) and the source of organic matter, based on the relative distribution of branched and isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (BIT). The ~55‰ variation in the δ2 H measured on the terrestrial plant long chain n-alkanes indicates significant continental hydrological changes in the region surrounding the Caspian Sea over the investigated 1.7 Myr interval. The MAT and BIT data show that the so-called Akchagylian marine incursion at around 2.75 Ma, marked by influx of marine biota into the Caspian Basin, originated from a cold region of the open ocean, endorsing a hydrological connection with the Arctic domain. The onset of the regional Apsheronian stage at ~2.13 Ma, identified by the invasion of Tyrrhenocythere sp. ostracods, coincided with a change towards constant δ2 H n-alkane and is shortly followed by the occurrence of alkenones in the Caspian Basin. The relative distributions of alkenones and their δ2 H values indicate that a connection with a saline basin, most likely the Black Sea, was established at the Akchagylian–Apsheronian transition.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département des Géosciences
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Palaeontology
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- Rights reserved
- Open access status
- green
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- DOI 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110802
- ISSN 0031-0182
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/326023
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