14,000 Years of Sediment, Vegetation, and Water-Level Changes at the Makepeace Cedar Swamp, Southeastern Massachusetts
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Data from a transect of four cores collected in the Makepeace Cedar Swamp, near Carver, Massachusetts, record past changes in deposition, vegetation, and water level. Time series of palynological data provide a 14,000-yr record of regional and local vegetation development, a means for biostratigraphic correlation and dating, and information about changes in water level. Differences in records among cores in the basin show that water level decreased at least 1.5 m between ∼10,800 and 9700 cal yr B.P., after which sediment accumulation was slow and intermittent across the basin for about 1700 yr. Between 8000 and 5600 cal yr B.P., water level rose ∼2.0 m, after which slow peat accumulation indicates a low stand about the time of the hemlock decline at 5300 ± 200 cal yr B.P. Dry conditions may have continued after this time, but by 3200 cal yr B.P., the onset of peat accumulation in shallow cores indicates that water level had risen to close to its highest postglacial level, where it is today. Peat has accumulated across the whole basin since 3200 cal yr B.P. Data from Makepeace and the Pequot Cedar Swamp, near Ledyard, Connecticut, indicate an early Holocene dry interval in southern New England that began 11,500 yr ago near the end of the Younger Dryas interval. The dry conditions prevailed between 10,800 and 8000 cal yr B.P. and coincide with the arrival and later rise to dominance of white pine trees (Pinus strobus) both regionally and near the basins. Our results indicate a climatic cause for the “pine period” in New England.
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- Authors
- Newby, P. E., Killoran, P., Waldorf, M. R., Shuman, B. N., Webb, R. S., & Webb, T.
- Affiliations
- Brown University (US)
- University of Oregon (US)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
- Venue
- Quaternary Research
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2000-05
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 352-368
- ISSN
- 0033-5894 (ISSN-L)
- 1096-0287
- OpenAlex
- W2150343376
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 46
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- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 2.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Quaternary Research (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil and Environmental Studies
- Keywords
- palynology, peat formation, water level fluctuations, Holocene vegetation history, Younger Dryas, hemlock decline, Pinus strobus, postglacial sedimentation, biostratigraphic correlation
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