Mediterranean Moisture Source for an Early-Holocene Humid Period in the Northern Red Sea
Abstract
Paleosalinity and terrigenous sediment input changes reconstructed on two sediment cores from the northernmost Red Sea were used to infer hydrological changes at the southern margin of the Mediterranean climate zone during the Holocene. Between approximately 9.25 and 7.25 thousand years ago, about 3 per thousand reduced surface water salinities and enhanced fluvial sediment input suggest substantially higher rainfall and freshwater runoff, which thereafter decreased to modern values. The northern Red Sea humid interval is best explained by enhancement and southward extension of rainfall from Mediterranean sources, possibly involving strengthened early-Holocene Arctic Oscillation patterns and a regional monsoon-type circulation induced by increased land-sea temperature contrasts. We conclude that Afro-Asian monsoonal rains did not cross the subtropical desert zone during the early to mid-Holocene.
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Wetter interludes have been identified during part of the last glacial, creating large lakes in the Nafud region in northern Arabia between about 34,000 and 24,000 years ago.
“On the other hand wetter interludes have been identified during part of the last glacial, creating large lakes in the Nafud region in northern Arabia between about 34,000 and 24,000 years ago (Arz et al. 2003; Schultz and Whitney 1986).”
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“On the other hand wetter interludes have been identified during part of the last glacial, creating large lakes in the Nafud region in northern Arabia between about 34,000 and 24,000 years ago (Arz et al. 2003; Schultz and Whitney 1986).”
BackgroundOrganic-rich sediments in brine-filled Shaban- and Kebrit deeps, northern Red Sea
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- Authors
- Arz, H. W., Lamy, F., Pätzold, J., Müller, P. J., & Prins, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Bremen (DE)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Center for Ocean Margins, University of Bremen, Klagenfurter Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2003-04-04
- Volume
- 300
- Issue
- 5616
- Pages
- 118-121
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2067118661
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 9.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and environmental studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Geological formations and processes
- Keywords
- northern Red Sea, paleosalinity, terrigenous sediment input, fluvial deposits, Mediterranean climate, hydrological change, Arctic Oscillation, land-sea thermal contrast, subtropical deserts, paleoclimate
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