TY  - JOUR
A1  - Anoop, Ambili
A1  - Prasad, S.
A1  - Plessen, Birgit
A1  - Basavaiah, Nathani
A1  - Gaye, B.
A1  - Naumann, R.
A1  - Menzel, P.
A1  - Weise, S.
A1  - Brauer, Achim
T1  - Palaeoenvironmental implications of evaporative gaylussite crystals from Lonar Lake, central India
JF  - Journal of quaternary science
N2  - We have undertaken petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic investigations on carbonate minerals found within a 10-m-long core from Lonar Lake, central India, with the aim of evaluating their potential as palaeoenvironmental proxies. The core encompasses the entire Holocene and is the first well-dated high-resolution record from central India. While calcite and/or aragonite were found throughout the core, the mineral gaylussite was found only in two specific intervals (46303890 and 2040560 cal a BP). Hydrochemical and isotope data from inflowing streams and lake waters indicate that evaporitic processes play a dominant role in the precipitation of carbonates within this lake. Isotopic (18O and 13C) studies on the evaporative gaylussite crystals and residual bulk carbonates (calcite) from the long core show that evaporation is the major control on 18O enrichment in both the minerals. However, in case of 13C additional mechanisms, for example methanogenesis (gaylussite) and phytoplankton productivity (calcium carbonate), play an additional important role in some intervals. We also discuss the relevance of our investigation for palaeoclimate reconstruction and late Holocene monsoon variability.
KW  - evaporites
KW  - gaylussite
KW  - isotopes
KW  - Lonar Lake
KW  - monsoon
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2625
SN  - 0267-8179
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
SP  - 349
EP  - 359
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -