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DOI10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.11.001
Lakes or wetlands? A comment on The middle Holocene climatic records from Arabia: Reassessing lacustrine environments, shift of ITCZ in Arabian Sea, and impacts of the southwest Indian and African monsoons’ by Enzel et al.
Engel, Max1; Matter, Albert2; Parker, Adrian G.3; Parton, Ash3,4; Petraglia, Michael D.5; Preston, Gareth W.3; Preusser, Frank6
通讯作者Engel, Max
来源期刊GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
ISSN0921-8181
EISSN1872-6364
出版年2017
卷号148页码:258-267
英文摘要

Enzel et al. (2015) reassess sedimentary records of Early to Mid-Holocene lake sites in Arabia based on a reinterpretation of published multiproxy data and a qualitative analysis of satellite imagery. The authors conclude that these sites represent palaeo-wetland environments rather than palaeolakes and that the majority of the Arabian Peninsula experienced no or, if at all, only a very minor increase of rainfall at that time mainly due to eastward expansion of the East African Summer Monsoon. We disagree with their reassessment and identify several cases where unequivocal evidence for early Late Pleistocene and Early to Mid-Holocene perennial lake environments in Arabia, lasting for centuries to millennia, was neglected by Enzel et al. (2015). Here we summarize findings which indicate the presence of lakes from the sites of Jubbah, Tayma, Mundafan (all Saudi Arabia), Wahalah, Awafi (both UAE), and the Wahiba Sands (Oman), supported by evidence including occurrence of barnacle colonies in living position, remnant bioclastic shoreline deposits, undisturbed varve formation, shallowing-up lacustrine sequences, various aquatic freshwater, brackish and saline micro- and macrofossils, such as ichnofaunal remains, which are the result of prolonged field-based research. While the precise depth, hydrology and ecology of these water bodies is still not entirely resolved, their perennial nature is indicative of a markedly increased precipitation regime, which, in combination with more abundant groundwater and increased spring outflow in terminal basins fed by charged aquifers, was sufficient to overcome evaporative losses. The palaeolakes’ influence on sustaining prehistoric populations is corroborated by the presence of rich archaeological evidence. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


英文关键词Arabian Peninsula Late Quatemary palaeoclimate Early Holocene Humid Period Lake deposits Palaeoenvironmental change
类型Editorial Material
语种英语
国家Germany ; Switzerland ; England
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000393528200021
WOS关键词SULTANATE-OF-OMAN ; NW SAUDI-ARABIA ; WAHIBA SAND SEA ; SOUTHEASTERN ARABIA ; NORTHWESTERN INDIA ; HUMAN OCCUPATION ; STABLE-ISOTOPES ; PERSIAN-GULF ; KHALI DESERT ; HUMID PERIOD
WOS类目Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Physical Geography ; Geology
来源机构University of Oxford
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/199341
作者单位1.Univ Cologne, Inst Geog, Albertus Magnus Pl, D-50923 Cologne, Germany;
2.Univ Bern, Inst Geol Sci, Baltzerstr 1 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland;
3.Oxford Brookes Univ, Human Origins & Palaeoenvironm Res Grp, Dept Social Sci, Oxford OX3 0BP, England;
4.Univ Oxford, Mansfield Coll, Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3TF, England;
5.Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Dept Archaeol, Kahlaische Str 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany;
6.Univ Freiburg, Inst Earth & Environm Sci, Albertstr 23b, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Engel, Max,Matter, Albert,Parker, Adrian G.,等. Lakes or wetlands? A comment on The middle Holocene climatic records from Arabia: Reassessing lacustrine environments, shift of ITCZ in Arabian Sea, and impacts of the southwest Indian and African monsoons’ by Enzel et al.[J]. University of Oxford,2017,148:258-267.
APA Engel, Max.,Matter, Albert.,Parker, Adrian G..,Parton, Ash.,Petraglia, Michael D..,...&Preusser, Frank.(2017).Lakes or wetlands? A comment on The middle Holocene climatic records from Arabia: Reassessing lacustrine environments, shift of ITCZ in Arabian Sea, and impacts of the southwest Indian and African monsoons’ by Enzel et al..GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE,148,258-267.
MLA Engel, Max,et al."Lakes or wetlands? A comment on The middle Holocene climatic records from Arabia: Reassessing lacustrine environments, shift of ITCZ in Arabian Sea, and impacts of the southwest Indian and African monsoons’ by Enzel et al.".GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE 148(2017):258-267.
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