noaa-lake-5483
Lake Chichancanab, Mexico 9,700 Year Isotope and Mineralogy Data
Hodell, D.A.
Lake Chichancanab, Mexico 9,700 Year Isotope and Mineralogy Data
2001-02-01
NCDC-Paleoclimatology
ONLINE Files
Pending
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/5483
Investigator
D.A.
Hodell
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
sulfur,sediment,null,percent,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 13C,gastropod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Pyrgophorus sp.
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
depth,null,null,centimeter,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 13C,ostracod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Cyprinotus sp.
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 13C,foraminifer,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Ammonia beccarii
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 18O,ostracod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Physocypria sp.
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 13C,ostracod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Physocypria sp.
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 18O,gastropod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,terrestrial gastropods
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
calcium carbonate,sediment,null,percent,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 18O,gastropod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Pyrgophorus sp.
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 18O,foraminifer,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Ammonia beccarii
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
identified foraminifer,null,null,count,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Ammonia beccarii
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 13C,gastropod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,terrestrial gastropods
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
age,null,null,radiocarbon year before present,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
delta 18O,ostracod,null,per mil PDB,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,Cyprinotus sp.
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
age,null,null,calendar year before present,null,paleolimnology,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
oxygen isotopes
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
population abundance
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
geochemistry
earth science
paleoclimate
paleolimnology
lake level
geoscientificInformation
drought
10920 cal yr BP
-26 cal yr BP
Complete
19.855
19.855
-88.763
-88.763
Continent
North America
Mexico
Yucatan
Lake Chichancanab>LATITUDE 19.855>LONGITUDE -88.763
None
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DATA Center Contact
Bruce
Bauer
bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov
paleo@noaa.gov
303-497-6280
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80305-3328
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online
ASCII
Hodell, D.A.. 1995. Possible role of climate in the collapse of the Classic Maya Civilization. Nature Vol. 375, pp. 391-394
THE Maya civilization developed around 3,000 years ago in Mesoamerica, and after flourishing during the so-called Classic period, it collapsed around 750-900 AD. It has been speculated that climate change may have played a part in this collapse. But efforts to reconstruct the last three millennia of Mesoamerican climate using palynological methods have met with equivocal success, because human-mediated deforestation has altered regional vegetation in ways that mimic climate shifts, making it difficult to discriminate between natural and anthropogenic changes. Here we use temporal variations in oxygen isotope and sediment composition in a 4.9-m sediment core from Lake Chichancanab, Mexico, to reconstruct a continuous record of Holocene climate change for the central Yucatan peninsula. The interval between 1,300 and 1,100 yr BP (AD 800-1,000) was the driest of the middle to late Holocene epoch, and coincided with the collapse of Classic Maya civilization. This continuous climate proxy record thus provides evidence of climate deterioration in the Maya region during the terminal Classic period.
STUDY NOTES: Oxygen isotope and sediment composition data from Lake Chichancanab, Mexico. The data are interpreted as a moisture balance proxy, and indicate drought conditions in the years 800-1000 AD, corresponding to the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization.
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