RAPID LATE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSTRUCTED FROM A LACUSTRINE OSTRACOD RECORD IN CENTRAL ITALY (LAKE TRASIMENO, UMBRIA): PRELIMINARY RESULTS

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Published: May 24, 2018
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Palaeotemperatures, palaeoclimatology, ostracoda, central Mediterranean, Quaternary

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Marta Marchegiano
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
David J. Horne
School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Elsa Gliozzi
Department of Science, University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
Daniel Ariztegui
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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An 8.59 m long sediment core was retrieved from Lake Trasimeno (central Italy) with the aim of performing a palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. In this study we present, for the first time in central Italy, a quantitative palaeotemperatures reconstruction based on ostracod assemblages. The mean winter (January) and summer (July) palaeotemperatures were estimated from 44,000 to 9,000 cal yr BP by using the Mutual Ostracod Temperature Range (MOTR) method. Of the total of 19 ostracod species recovered, 13 of them were used as reliable palaeotemperature proxies on the base of their living temperature ranges.

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Marchegiano, Marta, David J. Horne, Elsa Gliozzi, and Daniel Ariztegui , trans. 2018. “RAPID LATE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSTRUCTED FROM A LACUSTRINE OSTRACOD RECORD IN CENTRAL ITALY (LAKE TRASIMENO, UMBRIA): PRELIMINARY RESULTS”. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 31 (May): 147-50. https://amq.aiqua.it/index.php/amq/article/view/205.
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Vol. 31 (2018): "Quaternary: Past, Present, Future - AIQUA Conference 2018"
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