Decadal–centennial-scale solar-linked climate variations and millennial-scale internal oscillations during the Early Cretaceous

verfasst von

Hitoshi Hasegawa, Nagayoshi Katsuta, Yasushi Muraki, Ulrich Heimhofer, Niiden Ichinnorov, Hirofumi Asahi, Hisao Ando, Koshi Yamamoto, Masafumi Murayama, Tohru Ohta, Masanobu Yamamoto, Masayuki Ikeda, Kohki Ishikawa, Ryusei Kuma, Takashi Hasegawa, Noriko Hasebe, Shoji Nishimoto, Koichi Yamaguchi, Fumio Abe, Ryuji Tada, Takeshi Nakagawa

Abstract

Understanding climate variability and stability under extremely warm ‘greenhouse’ conditions in the past is essential for future climate predictions. However, information on millennial-scale (and shorter) climate variability during such periods is scarce, owing to a lack of suitable high-resolution, deep-time archives. Here we present a continuous record of decadal- to orbital-scale continental climate variability from annually laminated lacustrine deposits formed during the late Early Cretaceous (123–120 Ma: late Barremian–early Aptian) in southeastern Mongolia. Inter-annual changes in lake algal productivity for a 1091-year interval reveal a pronounced solar influence on decadal- to centennial-scale climatic variations (including the ~ 11-year Schwabe cycle). Decadally-resolved Ca/Ti ratios (proxy for evaporation/precipitation changes) for a ~ 355-kyr long interval further indicate millennial-scale (~ 1000–2000-yr) extreme drought events in inner-continental areas of mid-latitude palaeo-Asia during the Cretaceous. Millennial-scale oscillations in Ca/Ti ratio show distinct amplitude modulation (AM) induced by the precession, obliquity and short eccentricity cycles. Similar millennial-scale AM by Milankovitch cycle band was also previously observed in the abrupt climatic oscillations (known as Dansgaard–Oeschger events) in the ‘intermediate glacial’ state of the late Pleistocene, and in their potential analogues in the Jurassic ‘greenhouse’. Our findings indicate that external solar activity forcing was effective on decadal–centennial timescales, whilst the millennial-scale variations were likely amplified by internal process such as changes in deep-water formation strength, even during the Cretaceous ‘greenhouse’ period.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Geologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Kochi University
Gifu University
Universität Nagoya
Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Ibaraki University
Waseda University
Hokkaido University
University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
Kanazawa University
Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute
Chiba Institute of Technology
Ritsumeikan University
Aichi University

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Scientific Reports

Band

12

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

2045-2322

Publikationsdatum

12.2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemein

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 13 – Klimaschutzmaßnahmen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25815-w (Zugang: Offen)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9763356/ (Zugang: Offen)