Abstract
Quantitative continental climate reconstructions covering the last glacial cycle from the Iberian Peninsula are scarce. In order to fill this gap, we obtained for the first time a high-resolution mean annual air temperature (MAAT) record based on the distribution of specific bacterial membrane lipids (i.e., branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers; brGDGTs) from the last 36.0–4.7 kyr palaeolake record recovered by the Padul-15-05 sedimentary core (Padul, Sierra Nevada, southern Iberia). The fractional abundance of the three major groups of GDGTs present in the Padul sediments, GDGT-0, crenarchaeol and the summed brGDGTs, is comparable with that of other shallow and small (
Original language | English |
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Article number | 107434 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-13 |
Journal | Quaternary Science Reviews |
Volume | 281 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2022 |
Keywords
- GDGTs distribution
- Mean annual air temperature reconstruction
- pH reconstruction
- Continental sediment record
- Southern Spain
- Heinrich stadials
- Dansgaard–Oeschger events