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LEC 103 - Global Climate Change 1.1
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LEC 103 - Global Climate Change 1.1
Past climate
Relative dating
Uses principles of stratigraphy and the study of fossils to determine the relative age of rocks and sediments
Absolute dating
Radiometric dating techniques were developed to determine the absolute ages
Dates in years of rocks and sediments
Isotopic dating
Atoms of radioactive elements spontaneously disintegrate to form atoms of a different element, liberating energy in the process
The reason that radioactive decay offers a dependable means of keeping time is...
The number of radioactive atoms in a mineral declines at a fixed rate over time
The decay rate does not vary with the change in T or P which typically accompany geological processes
The isotopic age of rock = time since the isotopic clock was reset
When the isotopes were locked into the minerals e.g. crystallisation from melt or during metamorphism
Radioactive parent elements decompose to form daughter elements
Types of dating
Radiocarbon, 14C, Dating
All atoms of the same element have the same atomic number. Different isotopes of an element have the same no. of protons but different no. of neutrons
C isotopes: 6,7,and 8 neutrons i.e. atomic masses of 12,13,14
12C and 13C are stable and do not disintegrate. 14C is generated in Earth's atmosphere; 14C in the atmosphere remains constant
Growing organism incorpoates C into tissues at the ratio found in the atompshere
Death; C is not longer absorbed - 14 C in tissue decays
Half of the radioactivity will be lost after 5730 years.
By measuring the amount of 14C remaining in the fossil the date at which death occurred can e determined
Rubidium strontium dating
Argon argon dating
Uranium series dating
Rocks and sediments and fossils
Observations of rocks/sediments/fossils provide information on past climate. this coupled with their ages, implies climate chnage
Landforms
Glacial Cirques
Lowest cirque flor of the group of contemporaneous cirques = snowline
Ancient snowline can be compared with present dat snowline, and temperature changes calculated
U-shaped vallys
Sand DUnes
Large continental sand dunes only develop where precipitation is <100 mm a-1
If precipitation >100mm a-1, vegetation cover reduces sand movement and encourages soil development
Fossil and dunes currently sound in areas of high rainfall suggest that rainfall has increase since dune formation
Permafrost
Permanently frozen ground at or below freezing point of water for two or more years where only superficial layer may thaw during summer
Former mean annual temperatures can be inferred from distribution of ancient permafrost features
Covers 25% of earths land surface
Features include
Ice wedges, ice mounds, patterned ground
Varves
Regular alternations in lake sediment layers
Couplets/pairs represent annual seasonal deposition
Fine grained layers = autumn/winter. Coarse grained layers = spring/summer
Characteristics of an individual varve layer may provide 1) an indicator of the climate at the time of deposition and 2) a date
Palynology
Study of pollen - organic miscrofossils, 5-500 micrometers in size
Some sediments contain pollen grains derived from local/regional vegetation
Analysis of abundance and type of pollen grains in a particular horizon provides a picture of vegetation which thrived at the time of deposition
Beetles
Used for climate change studies for rocks deposited in last 22 ka, although beetles have existed the Lower Permian
Diatoms
Diatoms are aquatic microscopic unicellular algae
They absorb nutrients and Co2 from the surrounding water and are commonly preserved in lake sediments
Use to establish...
Past lake quality
Past shorelines
Interface of fresh and saline envrionments
E.g. salinity, nutrients, temperature
Deep sea cores
Sea floor offers more continuous stratigraphic record than terrestrial sections
Cores indicate a series of cold and warm episodes related to glacials and interglacials for last 2.6 Ma
Indicator
18O/16O of foraminifera
Temperature, ice volume
Coarse debris
Iceberg rafting
Fluvial sediments
River inputs
Foraminifera are microscopic aquatic organisms with a CaCo3 shell
They are especially sensitive to water temperature and salinity
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