A MIS 9/MIS 8 speleothem record of hydrological variability from Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)

E Regattieri; G Zanchetta; I Isola; P Bajo; N Perchiazzi; RN Drysdale; C Boschi; JC Hellstrom; A Francke; B Wagner

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A MIS 9/MIS 8 speleothem record of hydrological variability from Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)

E Regattieri, G Zanchetta, I Isola, P Bajo, N Perchiazzi, RN Drysdale, C Boschi, JC Hellstrom, A Francke, B Wagner

Global and Planetary Change | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.01.003

Abstract

The period corresponding to Marine Isotope Stages 9 (MIS 9) offers the opportunity to study orbital and sub-orbital scale climate variability under boundary conditions different from those of better studied intervals such as the Holocene and the Last Interglacial. Yet, it is poorly represented in independently-dated continental archives around the Mediterranean Region. Here, we present a speleothem stable isotope record (δ18O and δ13C) from the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M., southern Balkans), which consists of two periods of growth broadly covering the ca. 332 to 292 ka and the ca. 264 to 248 ka intervals (MIS 9e-b and late MIS 8). We interpret the speleothem δ18O as ..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This paper is the result of CCALMA (Climate from CAves and Lakes in Macedonia) working group, which paralleled the development of the SCOPSCO-ICDP project on Lake Ohrid. During the completion of this work, ER was supported by project SFB806 "Our way to Europe". This work was partly funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP160102969 and by "Fondi di Ateneo" of GZ. We thank the Galicica National Park (www.galicica.org.mk), the Skopije Speleological Team "Peoni", S. Trajanovski (Hydrobiological Institute, Ohrid), O. Avramoski (Galicica Park, Ohrid) and D. Georgiev for the logistical and friendly support during field work. We also thank two anonimous reviewers for their positive comments, which significantly improved the quality of the paper.