TY - JOUR A1 - Kaiser, Knut A1 - Oldorff, Silke A1 - Breitbach, Carsten A1 - Kappler, Christoph A1 - Theuerkauf, Martin A1 - Scharnweber, Tobias A1 - Schult, Manuela A1 - Kuester, Mathias A1 - Engelhardt, Christof A1 - Heinrich, Ingo A1 - Hupfer, Michael A1 - Schwalbe, Grit A1 - Kirschey, Tom A1 - Bens, Oliver T1 - A submerged pine forest from the early Holocene in the Mecklenburg Lake District, northern Germany JF - Boreas N2 - For the first time, evidence of a submerged pine forest from the early Holocene can be documented in a central European lake. Subaquatic tree stumps were discovered in Lake Giesenschlagsee at a depth of between 2 and 5m using scuba divers, side-scan sonar and a remotely operated vehicle. Several erect stumps, anchored to the ground by roots, represent an insitu record of this former forest. Botanical determination revealed the stumps to be Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) with an individual tree age of about 80years. The trees could not be dated by means of dendrochronology, as they are older than the regional reference chronology for pine. Radiocarbon ages from the wood range from 10880 +/- 210 to 10370 +/- 130cal. a BP, which is equivalent to the mid-Preboreal to early Boreal biozones. The trees are rooted in sedge peat, which can be dated to this period as well, using pollen stratigraphical analysis. Tilting of the peat bed by 4m indicates subsidence of the ground due to local dead ice melting, causing the trees to become submerged and preserved for millennia. Together with recently detected Lateglacial insitu tree occurrences in nearby lakes, the submerged pine forest at Giesenschlagsee represents a new and highly promising type of geo-bio-archive for the wider region. Comparable insitu pine remnants occur at some terrestrial (buried setting) and marine (submerged setting) sites in northern central Europe and beyond, but they partly differ in age. In general, the insitu pine finds document shifts of the zonal boreal forest ecosystem during the late Quaternary. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12314 SN - 0300-9483 SN - 1502-3885 VL - 47 IS - 3 SP - 910 EP - 925 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rolf, Werner A1 - Pauleit, Stephan A1 - Wiggering, Hubert T1 - A stakeholder approach, door opener for farmland and multifunctionality in urban green infrastructure JF - Urban forestry & urban greening N2 - During the last years Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) has evolved as a research focus across Europe. UGI can be understood as a multifunctional network of different urban green spaces and elements contributing to urban benefits. Urban agriculture has gained increasing research interest in this context. While a strong focus has been made on functions and benefits of small scale activities, the question is still open, whether these findings can be up-scaled and transferred to the farmland scale. Furthermore, multifunctionality of urban and peri-urban agriculture is rarely being considered in the landscape context. This research aims to address these gaps and harnesses the question if agricultural landscapes – which in many European metropolitan regions provide significant spatial potential – can contribute to UGI as multifunctional green spaces. This work considers multifunctionality qualitatively based on stakeholder opinion, using a participatory research approach. This study provides new insights in peri-urban farmland potentials for UGI development, resulting into a strategy framework. Furthermore, it reflects on the role of the stakeholder involvement for `multifunctionality planning´. It suggests that it helps to define meaningful bundles of intertwined functions that interact on different scales, helping to deal with non-linearity of multiple functions and to better manage them simultaneously. KW - Benefits KW - Functions KW - Green surge KW - Multifunctionality KW - Participation KW - Peri-urban agriculture KW - Stakeholder KW - Urban learning lab Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.07.012 SN - 1618-8667 VL - 40 SP - 73 EP - 83 PB - Urban & Fischer CY - Jena ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gao, Yongbo A1 - Merz, Christoph A1 - Lischeid, Gunnar A1 - Schneider, Michael T1 - A review on missing hydrological data processing JF - Environmental earth sciences N2 - Like almost all fields of science, hydrology has benefited to a large extent from the tremendous improvements in scientific instruments that are able to collect long-time data series and an increase in available computational power and storage capabilities over the last decades. Many model applications and statistical analyses (e.g., extreme value analysis) are based on these time series. Consequently, the quality and the completeness of these time series are essential. Preprocessing of raw data sets by filling data gaps is thus a necessary procedure. Several interpolation techniques with different complexity are available ranging from rather simple to extremely challenging approaches. In this paper, various imputation methods available to the hydrological researchers are reviewed with regard to their suitability for filling gaps in the context of solving hydrological questions. The methodological approaches include arithmetic mean imputation, principal component analysis, regression-based methods and multiple imputation methods. In particular, autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) models which originate from finance and econometrics will be discussed regarding their applicability to data series characterized by non-constant volatility and heteroscedasticity in hydrological contexts. The review shows that methodological advances driven by other fields of research bear relevance for a more intensive use of these methods in hydrology. Up to now, the hydrological community has paid little attention to the imputation ability of time series models in general and ARCH models in particular. KW - Missing data KW - Imputation KW - Hydrological time series analysis KW - ARCH KW - ARIMA KW - Heteroscedasticity Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7228-6 SN - 1866-6280 SN - 1866-6299 VL - 77 IS - 2 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aiken, John M. A1 - Aiken, Chastity A1 - Cotton, Fabrice T1 - A python library for teaching computation to seismology students JF - Seismological research letters N2 - Python is at the forefront of scientific computation for seismologists and therefore should be introduced to students interested in becoming seismologists. On its own, Python is open source and well designed with extensive libraries. However, Python code can also be executed, visualized, and communicated to others with "Jupyter Notebooks". Thus, Jupyter Notebooks are ideal for teaching students Python and scientific computation. In this article, we designed an openly available Python library and collection of Jupyter Notebooks based on defined scientific computation learning goals for seismology students. The Notebooks cover topics from an introduction to Python to organizing data, earthquake catalog statistics, linear regression, and making maps. Our Python library and collection of Jupyter Notebooks are meant to be used as course materials for an upper-division data analysis course in an Earth Science Department, and the materials were tested in a Probabilistic Seismic Hazard course. However, seismologists or anyone else who is interested in Python for data analysis and map making can use these materials. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1785/0220170246 SN - 0895-0695 SN - 1938-2057 VL - 89 IS - 3 SP - 1165 EP - 1171 PB - Seismological Society of America CY - Albany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Woutersen, Amber A1 - Jardine, Phillip E. A1 - Giovanni Bogota-Angel, Raul A1 - Zhang, Hong-Xiang A1 - Silvestro, Daniele A1 - Antonelli, Alexandre A1 - Gogna, Elena A1 - Erkens, Roy H. J. A1 - Gosling, William D. A1 - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume A1 - Hoorn, Carina T1 - A novel approach to study the morphology and chemistry of pollen in a phylogenetic context, applied to the halophytic taxon Nitraria L.(Nitrariaceae) JF - PeerJ N2 - Nitraria is a halophytic taxon (i.e., adapted to saline environments) that belongs to the plant family Nitrariaceae and is distributed from the Mediterranean, across Asia into the south-eastern tip of Australia. This taxon is thought to have originated in Asia during the Paleogene (66-23 Ma), alongside the proto-Paratethys epicontinental sea. The evolutionary history of Nitraria might hold important clues on the links between climatic and biotic evolution but limited taxonomic documentation of this taxon has thus far hindered this line of research. Here we investigate if the pollen morphology and the chemical composition of the pollen wall are informative of the evolutionary history of Nitraria and could explain if origination along the proto-Paratethys and dispersal to the Tibetan Plateau was simultaneous or a secondary process. To answer these questions, we applied a novel approach consisting of a combination of Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), to determine the chemical composition of the pollen wall, and pollen morphological analyses using Light Microscopy (LM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). We analysed our data using ordinations (principal components analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling), and directly mapped it on the Nitrariaceae phylogeny to produce a phylomorphospace and a phylochemospace. Our LM, SEM and FTIR analyses show clear morphological and chemical differences between the sister groups Peganum and Nitraria. Differences in the morphological and chemical characteristics of highland species (Nitraria schoberi, N. sphaerocarpa, N. sibirica and N. tangutorum) and lowland species (Nitraria billardierei and N. retusa) are very subtle, with phylogenetic history appearing to be a more important control on Nitraria pollen than local environmental conditions. Our approach shows a compelling consistency between the chemical and morphological characteristics of the eight studied Nitrariaceae species, and these traits are in agreement with the phylogenetic tree. Taken together, this demonstrates how novel methods for studying fossil pollen can facilitate the evolutionary investigation of living and extinct taxa, and the environments they represent. KW - FTIR KW - LM KW - SEM KW - Paratethys KW - Tibet KW - Sporopollenin KW - Mediterranean KW - Steppe-desert KW - Australia KW - Palynology Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5055 SN - 2167-8359 VL - 6 PB - PeerJ Inc. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dietrich, Marcel A1 - Behrens, Harald A1 - Wilke, Max T1 - A new optical cell for in situ Raman spectroscopy, and its application to study sulfur-bearing fluids at elevated pressures and temperatures JF - American mineralogist : an international journal of earth and planetary materials N2 - Sulfur is an important component in volcanic gases at the Earth surface but also present in the deep Earth in hydrothermal or magmatic fluids. Little is known about the evolution of such fluids during ascent in the crust. A new optical cell was developed for in situ Raman spectroscopic investigations on fluids allowing abrupt or continuous changes of pressure up to 200 MPa at temperatures up to 750 degrees C. The concept is based on a flexible gold bellow, which separates the sample fluid from the pressure medium water. To avoid reactions between aggressive fluids and the pressure cell, steel components in contact with the fluid are shielded by gold foil. The cell was tested to study redox reactions in fluids using aqueous ammonium sulfate solutions as a model system. During heating at constant pressure of 130 MPa, sulfate ions transform first to HSO4- ions and then to molecular units such as H2SO4. Variation of pressure shows that the stability of sulfate species relies on fluid density, i.e., highly charged species are stable only in high-density fluids. Partial decomposition of ammonium was evident above 550 degrees C by the occurrence of a nitrogen peak in the Raman spectra. Reduced sulfur species were observed above 700 degrees C by Raman signals near 2590 cm(-1) assigned to HS- and H2S. No clear evidence for the formation of sulfur dioxide was found in contrary to previous studies on aqueous H2SO4, suggesting very reducing conditions in our experiments. Fluid-mineral interaction was studied by inserting into the cell a small, semi-open capsule filled with a mixture of pyrite and pyrrhotite. Oxidation of the sample assembly was evident by transformation of pyrite to pyrrhotite. As a consequence, sulfide species were observed in the fluid already at temperatures of similar to 600 degrees C. KW - In situ Raman spectroscopy KW - fluids KW - decompression KW - optical cell KW - sulfur speciation KW - redox reactions Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6244 SN - 0003-004X SN - 1945-3027 VL - 103 IS - 3 SP - 418 EP - 429 PB - Mineralogical Society of America CY - Chantilly ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Öztürk, Ugur A1 - Marwan, Norbert A1 - von Specht, Sebastian A1 - Korup, Oliver A1 - Jensen, J. T1 - A new centennial sea-level record for Antalya, Eastern Mediterranean JF - Journal of geophysical research-oceans N2 - Quantitative estimates of sea-level rise in the Mediterranean Basin become increasingly accurate thanks to detailed satellite monitoring. However, such measuring campaigns cover several years to decades, while longer-term sea-level records are rare for the Mediterranean. We used a data archeological approach to reanalyze monthly mean sea-level data of the Antalya-I (1935–1977) tide gauge to fill this gap. We checked the accuracy and reliability of these data before merging them with the more recent records of the Antalya-II (1985–2009) tide gauge, accounting for an eight-year hiatus. We obtain a composite time series of monthly and annual mean sea levels spanning some 75 years, providing the longest record for the eastern Mediterranean Basin, and thus an essential tool for studying the region's recent sea-level trends. We estimate a relative mean sea-level rise of 2.2 ± 0.5 mm/year between 1935 and 2008, with an annual variability (expressed here as the standard deviation of the residuals, σresiduals = 41.4 mm) above that at the closest tide gauges (e.g., Thessaloniki, Greece, σresiduals = 29.0 mm). Relative sea-level rise accelerated to 6.0 ± 1.5 mm/year at Antalya-II; we attribute roughly half of this rate (~3.6 mm/year) to tectonic crustal motion and anthropogenic land subsidence. Our study highlights the value of data archeology for recovering and integrating historic tide gauge data for long-term sea-level and climate studies. KW - sea level KW - tide gauge KW - data archeology KW - Mediterranean Sea Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013906 SN - 2169-9275 SN - 2169-9291 VL - 123 IS - 7 SP - 4503 EP - 4517 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kotha, Sreeram Reddy A1 - Cotton, Fabrice A1 - Bindi, Dino T1 - A new approach to site classification BT - Mixed-effects Ground Motion Prediction Equation with spectral clustering of site amplification functions JF - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering N2 - With increasing amount of strong motion data, Ground Motion Prediction Equation (GMPE) developers are able to quantify empirical site amplification functions (delta S2S(s)) from GMPE residuals, for use in site-specific Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment. In this study, we first derive a GMPE for 5% damped Pseudo Spectral Acceleration (g) of Active Shallow Crustal earthquakes in Japan with 3.4 <= M-w <= 7.3 and 0 <= R-JB <= 600km. Using k-mean spectral clustering technique, we then classify our estimated delta S2S(s)(T = 0.01 - 2s) of 588 wellcharacterized sites, into 8 site clusters with distinct mean site amplification functions, and within-cluster site-tosite variability similar to 50% smaller than the overall dataset variability (phi(S2S)). Following an evaluation of existing schemes, we propose a revised data-driven site classification characterized by kernel density distributions of V-s30, V-s10, H-800, and predominant period (T-G) of the site clusters. KW - Mixed-effects regression KW - Ground Motion Prediction Equation KW - Site classification KW - Spectral clustering analysis KW - Empirical site amplification functions Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2018.01.051 SN - 0267-7261 SN - 1879-341X VL - 110 SP - 318 EP - 329 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hartman, Jan F. A1 - Gentz, Torben A1 - Schiller, Amanda A1 - Greule, Markus A1 - Grossart, Hans-Peter A1 - Ionescu, Danny A1 - Keppler, Frank A1 - Martinez-Cruz, Karla A1 - Sepulveda-Jauregui, Armando A1 - Isenbeck-Schroeter, Margot T1 - A f ast and sensitive method for the continuous in situ determination of dissolved methane and its delta C-13-isotope ratio in surface waters JF - Limnology and Oceanography-methods N2 - A fast and sensitive method for the continuous determination of methane (CH4) and its stable carbon isotopic values (delta C-13-CH4) in surface waters was developed by applying a vacuum to a gas/liquid exchange membrane and measuring the extracted gases by a portable cavity ring-down spectroscopy analyser (M-CRDS). The M-CRDS was calibrated and characterized for CH4 concentration and delta C-13-CH4 with synthetic water standards. The detection limit of the M-CRDS for the simultaneous determination of CH4 and delta C-13-CH4 is 3.6 nmol L-1 CH4. A measurement precision of CH4 concentrations and delta C-13-CH4 in the range of 1.1%, respectively, 1.7 parts per thousand (1 sigma) and accuracy (1.3%, respectively, 0.8 parts per thousand [1 sigma]) was achieved for single measurements and averaging times of 10 min. The response time tau of 57 +/- 5 s allow determination of delta C-13-CH4 values more than twice as fast than other methods. The demonstrated M-CRDS method was applied and tested for Lake Stechlin (Germany) and compared with the headspace-gas chromatography and fast membrane CH4 concentration methods. Maximum CH4 concentrations (577 nmol L-1) and lightest delta C-13-CH4 (-35.2 parts per thousand) were found around the thermocline in depth profile measurements. The M-CRDS-method was in good agreement with other methods. Temporal variations in CH4 concentration and delta C-13-CH4 obtained in 24 h measurements indicate either local methane production/oxidation or physical variations in the thermocline. Therefore, these results illustrate the need of fast and sensitive analyses to achieve a better understanding of different mechanisms and pathways of CH4 formation in aquatic environments. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10244 SN - 1541-5856 VL - 16 IS - 5 SP - 273 EP - 285 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kriegerowski, Marius A1 - Petersen, Gesa Maria A1 - Vasyura-Bathke, Hannes A1 - Ohrnberger, Matthias T1 - A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Localization of Clustered Earthquakes Based on Multistation Full Waveforms JF - Seismological research letters N2 - Earthquake localization is both a necessity within the field of seismology, and a prerequisite for further analysis such as source studies and hazard assessment. Traditional localization methods often rely on manually picked phases. We present an alternative approach using deep learning that once trained can predict hypocenter locations efficiently. In seismology, neural networks have typically been trained with either single-station records or based on features that have been extracted previously from the waveforms. We use three-component full-waveform records of multiple stations directly. This means no information is lost during preprocessing and preparation of the data does not require expert knowledge. The first convolutional layer of our deep convolutional neural network (CNN) becomes sensitive to features that characterize the waveforms it is trained on. We show that this layer can therefore additionally be used as an event detector. As a test case, we trained our CNN using more than 2000 earthquake swarm events from West Bohemia, recorded by nine local three-component stations. The CNN successfully located 908 validation events with standard deviations of 56.4 m in east-west, 123.8 m in north-south, and 136.3 m in vertical direction compared to a double-difference relocated reference catalog. The detector is sensitive to events with magnitudes down to M-L = -0.8 with 3.5% false positive detections. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180320 SN - 0895-0695 SN - 1938-2057 VL - 90 IS - 2 SP - 510 EP - 516 PB - Seismological Society of America CY - Albany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bürger, Gerd T1 - A counterexample to decomposing climate shifts and trends by weather types JF - International Journal of Climatology N2 - The literature contains a sizable number of publications where weather types are used to decompose climate shifts or trends into contributions of frequency and mean of those types. They are all based on the product rule, that is, a transformation of a product of sums into a sum of products, the latter providing the decomposition. While there is nothing to argue about the transformation itself, its interpretation as a climate shift or trend decomposition is bound to fail. While the case of a climate shift may be viewed as an incomplete description of a more complex behaviour, trend decomposition indeed produces bogus trends, as demonstrated by a synthetic counterexample with well-defined trends in type frequency and mean. Consequently, decompositions based on that transformation, be it for climate shifts or trends, must not be used. KW - analysis KW - climate KW - statistical methods Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5519 SN - 0899-8418 SN - 1097-0088 VL - 38 IS - 9 SP - 3732 EP - 3735 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hudson, Paul T1 - A comparison of definitions of affordability for flood risk adaption measures BT - a case study of current and future risk-based flood insurance premiums in Europe JF - Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change : an international journal devoted to scientific, engineering, socio-economic and policy responses to environmental change N2 - Risk-based insurance is a commonly proposed and discussed flood risk adaptation mechanism in policy debates across the world such as in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. However, both risk-based premiums and growing risk pose increasing difficulties for insurance to remain affordable. An empirical concept of affordability is required as the affordability of adaption strategies is an important concern for policymakers, yet such a concept is not often examined. Therefore, a robust metric with a commonly acceptable affordability threshold is required. A robust metric allows for a previously normative concept to be quantified in monetary terms, and in this way, the metric is rendered more suitable for integration into public policy debates. This paper investigates the degree to which risk-based flood insurance premiums are unaffordable in Europe. In addition, this paper compares the outcomes generated by three different definitions of unaffordability in order to investigate the most robust definition. In doing so, the residual income definition was found to be the least sensitive to changes in the threshold. While this paper focuses on Europe, the selected definition can be employed elsewhere in the world and across adaption measures in order to develop a common metric for indicating the potential unaffordability problem. KW - Flood risk KW - Insurance KW - Affordability KW - Climate change KW - Adaptation KW - Public policy Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-017-9769-5 SN - 1381-2386 SN - 1573-1596 VL - 23 IS - 7 SP - 1019 EP - 1038 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhang, Yang A1 - Huang, Wentao A1 - Huang, Baochun A1 - van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. A1 - Yang, Tao A1 - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume A1 - Guo, Zhaojie T1 - 53-43Ma Deformation of Eastern Tibet Revealed by Three Stages of Tectonic Rotation in the Gongjue Basin JF - Journal of geophysical research : Solid earth N2 - The Gongjue basin from the eastern Qiangtang terrane is located in the transition region where the regional structural lineation curves from east-west-oriented in Tibet to north-south-oriented in Yunnan. In this study, we sampled the red beds in the basin from the lower Gongjue to upper Ranmugou formations for the first time covering the entire stratigraphic profile. The stratigraphic ages are bracketed within 53-43Ma by new detrital zircon U-Pb ages constraining the maximum deposition age to 52.51.5Ma. Rock magnetic and petrographic studies indicate that detrital magnetite and hematite are the magnetic carriers. Positive reversals and fold tests demonstrate that the characteristic remanent magnetization has a primary origin. The Gongjue and Ranmugou formations yield mean characteristic remanent magnetization directions of D-s/I-s=31.0 degrees/21.3 degrees and D-s/I-s=15.9 degrees/22.0 degrees, respectively. The magnetic inclination of these characteristic remanent magnetizations is significantly shallowed compared to the expected inclination for the locality. However, the elongation/inclination correction method does not provide a meaningful correction, likely because of syn-depositional rotation. Rotations relative to the Eurasian apparent polar wander path occurred in three stages: Stage I, 33.33.4 degrees clockwise rotation during the deposition of the Gongjue and lower Ranmugou formations; Stage II, 26.93.7 degrees counterclockwise rotation during deposition of the lower and middle Ranmugou formation; and Stage III, 17.73.3 degrees clockwise rotation after 43Ma. The complex rotation history recorded in the basin is possibly linked to sinistral shear along the Qiangtang block during India indentation into Asia and the early stage of the extrusion of the northwestern Indochina blocks away from eastern Tibet. KW - eastern Qiangtang terrane KW - Gongjue basin KW - paleomagnetism KW - inclination shallowing KW - rotation Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/2018JB015443 SN - 2169-9313 SN - 2169-9356 VL - 123 IS - 5 SP - 3320 EP - 3338 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Washington ER - TY - THES A1 - Engelhardt, Jonathan T1 - 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of ICDP PALEOVAN drilling cores T1 - 40Ar/39Ar Geochronologie der ICDP PALEOVAN Bohrkerne N2 - The scientific drilling campaign PALEOVAN was conducted in the summer of 2010 and was part of the international continental drilling programme (ICDP). The main goal of the campaign was the recovery of a sensitive climate archive in the East of Anatolia. Lacustrine deposits underneath the lake floor of ‘Lake Van’ constitute this archive. The drilled core material was recovered from two locations: the Ahlat Ridge and the Northern Basin. A composite core was constructed from cored material of seven parallel boreholes at the Ahlat Ridge and covers an almost complete lacustrine history of Lake Van. The composite record offered sensitive climate proxies such as variations of total organic carbon, K/Ca ratios, or a relative abundance of arboreal pollen. These proxies revealed patterns that are similar to climate proxy variations from Greenland ice cores. Climate variations in Greenland ice cores have been dated by modelling the timing of orbital forces to affect the climate. Volatiles from melted ice aliquots are often taken as high-resolution proxies and provide a base for fitting the according temporal models. The ICDP PALEOVAN scientific team fitted proxy data from the lacustrine drilling record to ice core data and constructed an age model. Embedded volcaniclastic layers had to be dated radiometrically in order to provide independent age constraints to the climate-stratigraphic age model. Solving this task by an application of the 40Ar/39Ar method was the main objective of this thesis. Earlier efforts to apply the 40Ar/39Ar dating resulted in inaccuracies that could not be explained satisfactorily. The absence of K-rich feldspars in suitable tephra layers implied that feldspar crystals needed to be 500 μm in size minimum, in order to apply single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating. Some of the samples did not contain any of these grain sizes or only very few crystals of that size. In order to overcome this problem this study applied a combined single-crystal and multi-crystal approach with different crystal fractions from the same sample. The preferred method of a stepwise heating analysis of an aliquot of feldspar crystals has been applied to three samples. The Na-rich crystals and their young geological age required 20 mg of inclusion-free, non-corroded feldspars. Small sample volumes (usually 25 % aliquots of 5 cm3 of sample material – a spoon full of tephra) and the widespread presence of melt-inclusion led to the application of combined single- and multigrain total fusion analyses. 40Ar/39Ar analyses on single crystals have the advantage of being able to monitor the presence of excess 40Ar and detrital or xenocrystic contamination in the samples. Multigrain analyses may hide the effects from these obstacles. The results from the multigrain analyses are therefore discussed with respect to the findings from the respective cogenetic single crystal ages. Some of the samples in this study were dated by 40Ar/39Ar on feldspars on multigrain separates and (if available) in combination with only a few single crystals. 40Ar/39Ar ages from two of the samples deviated statistically from the age model. All other samples resulted in identical ages. The deviations displayed older ages than those obtained from the age model. t-Tests compared radiometric ages with available age control points from various proxies and from the relative paleointensity of the earth magnetic field within a stratigraphic range of ± 10 m. Concordant age control points from different relative chronometers indicated that deviations are a result of erroneous 40Ar/39Ar ages. The thesis argues two potential reasons for these ages: (1) the irregular appearance of 40Ar from rare melt- and fluid- inclusions and (2) the contamination of the samples with older crystals due to a rapid combination of assimilation and ejection. Another aliquot of feldspar crystals that underwent separation for the application of 40Ar/39Ar dating was investigated for geochemical inhomogeneities. Magmatic zoning is ubiquitous in the volcaniclastic feldspar crystals. Four different types of magmatic zoning were detected. The zoning types are compositional zoning (C-type zoning), pseudo-oscillatory zoning of trace ele- ment concentrations (PO-type zoning), chaotic and patchy zoning of major and trace element concentrations (R-type zoning) and concentric zoning of trace elements (CC-type zoning). Sam- ples that deviated in 40Ar/39Ar ages showed C-type zoning, R-type zoning or a mix of different types of zoning (C-type and PO-type). Feldspars showing PO-type zoning typically represent the smallest grain size fractions in the samples. The constant major element compositions of these crystals are interpreted to represent the latest stages in the compositional evolution of feldspars in a peralkaline melt. PO-type crystals contain less melt- inclusions than other zoning types and are rarely corroded. This thesis concludes that feldspars that show PO-type zoning are most promising chronometers for the 40Ar/39Ar method, if samples provide mixed zoning types of Quaternary anorthoclase feldspars. Five samples were dated by applying the 40Ar/39Ar method to volcanic glass. High fractions of atmospheric Ar (typically > 98%) significantly hampered the precision of the 40Ar/39Ar ages and resulted in rough age estimates that widely overlap the age model. Ar isotopes indicated that the glasses bore a chorine-rich Ar-end member. The chlorine-derived 38Ar indicated chlorine-rich fluid-inclusions or the hydration of the volcanic glass shards. This indication strengthened the evidence that irregularly distributed melt-inclusions and thus irregular distributed excess 40Ar influenced the problematic feldspar 40Ar/39Ar ages. Whether a connection between a corrected initial 40Ar/36Ar ratio from glasses to the 40Ar/36Ar ratios from pore waters exists remains unclear. This thesis offers another age model, which is similarly based on the interpolation of the temporal tie points from geophysical and climate-stratigraphic data. The model used a PCHIP- interpolation (piecewise cubic hermite interpolating polynomial) whereas the older age model used a spline-interpolation. Samples that match in ages from 40Ar/39Ar dating of feldspars with the earlier published age model were additionally assigned with an age from the PCHIP- interpolation. These modelled ages allowed a recalculation of the Alder Creek sanidine mineral standard. The climate-stratigraphic calibration of an 40Ar/39Ar mineral standard proved that the age versus depth interpolations from PAELOVAN drilling cores were accurate, and that the applied chronometers recorded the temporal evolution of Lake Van synchronously. Petrochemical discrimination of the sampled volcaniclastic material is also given in this thesis. 41 from 57 sampled volcaniclastic layers indicate Nemrut as their provenance. Criteria that served for the provenance assignment are provided and reviewed critically. Detailed correlations of selected PALEOVAN volcaniclastics to onshore samples that were described in detail by earlier studies are also discussed. The sampled volcaniclastics dominantly have a thickness of < 40 cm and have been ejected by small to medium sized eruptions. Onshore deposits from these types of eruptions are potentially eroded due to predominant strong winds on Nemrut and Süphan slopes. An exact correlation with the data presented here is therefore equivocal or not possible at all. Deviating feldspar 40Ar/39Ar ages can possibly be explained by inherited 40Ar from feldspar xenocrysts contaminating the samples. In order to test this hypothesis diffusion couples of Ba were investigated in compositionally zoned feldspar crystals. The diffusive behaviour of Ba in feldspar is known, and gradients in the changing concentrations allowed for the calculation of the duration of the crystal’s magmatic development since the formation of the zoning interface. Durations were compared with degassing scenarios that model the Ar-loss during assimilation and subsequent ejection of the xenocrystals. Diffusive equilibration of the contrasting Ba concentrations is assumed to generate maximum durations as the gradient could have been developed in several growth and heating stages. The modelling does not show any indication of an involvement of inherited 40Ar in any of the deviating samples. However, the analytical set-up represents the lower limit of the required spatial resolution. Therefore, it cannot be excluded that the degassing modelling relies on a significant overestimation of the maximum duration of the magmatic history. Nevertheless, the modelling of xenocrystal degassing evidences that the irregular incorporation of excess 40Ar by melt- and fluid inclusions represents the most critical problem that needs to be overcome in dating volcaniclastic feldspars from the PALEOVAN drill cores. This thesis provides the complete background in generating and presenting 40Ar/39Ar ages that are compared to age data from a climate-stratigraphic model. Deviations are identified statistically and then discussed in order to find explanations from the age model and/or from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Most of the PALEOVAN stratigraphy provides several chronometers that have been proven for their synchronicity. Lacustrine deposits from Lake Van represent a key archive for reconstructing climate evolution in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Near East. The PALEOVAN record offers a climate-stratigraphic age model with a remarkable accuracy and resolution. N2 - Die PALEOVAN−Bohrkampagne des internationalen kontinentalen Bohrprogramms ICDP wurde im Sommer 2010 realisiert. Das übergeordnete Ziel dieser Kampagne war die Entnahme eines Klimaarchivs im Osten Anatoliens. Als Archiv dienen Süßwasserablagerungen am Grund des Vansees. PALEOVAN Bohrkerne bieten lakustrine Ablagerungen von zwei Lokalitäten des Sees, und zwar der Ahlat Ridge und des Northern Basins. Durch das Zusammenstellen bestmöglicher Bohrkernbestände aus sieben parallelen Bohrungen auf der Ahlat Ridge, konnte die nahezu vollständige Aufzeichnung der Geschichte des Sees gewonnen werden. Dieses detaillierte Archiv zeichnete sensible Klimafaktoren auf. Als Beispiele sind zu nennen: die Variationen organischen Kohlenstoffs, das Verhältnis von Kalium zu Kalzium und die Anteile arborealer Pollen gegenüber dem Gesamtpollenbestand. Stellvertreterdaten für Klimavariationen (sogenannte Proxies) ähneln in ihrem Muster sehr stark den bekannten Klimavariationen aus Eisbohrkernen des Grönlandeises. Da das Timing der Klimavariationen in den Grönlandeiskernen durch Datierungen mithilfe im Eis gespeicherter Gasphasen und orbitaler Modellberechnungen sehr genau bekannt ist, konnten Sedimentolog*innen des PALEOVAN−Teams ein klimastratigraphisches Altersmodell aus den Proxies berechnen. Die Kernaufgabe der hier vorgelegten Dissertation ist es, eingelagerte pyroklastische Ablagerungen mithilfe der 40Ar/39Ar−Methode zu datieren und das Altersmodell zu diskutieren. Die Notwendigkeit der 40Ar/39Ar−Datierungen war besonders gegeben, da vorab publizierte radiometrische Datierungen von ICDP−PALEOVAN Bohrkernen statistisch nicht ausreichend beschrieben wurden und vorhandene Abweichungen gegenüber dem Altersmodell undiskutiert blieben. An der westlichen und nördlichen Küste des Sees befinden sich zwei Stratovulkane: Nemrut und Süphan. Beide Vulkane haben über die Dauer der kompletten Seegeschichte pyroklastisches Material im See abgelagert. Feldspäte und vulkanische Gläser aus rhyolitischen und trachytischen Auswurfprodukten wurden auf ihre Zusammensetzung untersucht und es wurde ihre Eignung für eine Anwendung der 40Ar/39Ar−Geochronologie festgestellt. Die Abwesenheit hoher Kaliumkonzentrationen in Feldspäten aus geeigneten pyroklastischen Lagen bedeutet, dass Kristalle eine Mindestgröße von ca. 500 Mikrometer benötigen, um Analysen an einzelnen Kristallen durchführen zu können. Nicht alle Proben liefern ausreichend Kristalle dieser groben Korngröße. Somit wurde eine Methode gewählt, die Mehrkorn und Einzelkornanalysen miteinander kombiniert. Die bevorzugte Methode des schrittweisen Ausheizens war nur mit drei Proben möglich. Grund dafür ist, dass der geringe Kaliumgehalt und das junge geologische Alter große Mengen (ca. 20 mg) einschluss− und korrosionsfreier Feldspäte benötigten. Die geringen Probenmengen (25% Aliquot von üblicherweise 5 cm3 Probenmaterial) und die Omnipräsenz von Schmelzeinschlüssen in den Feldspäten legten nahe, auf die Methodik des schlagartigen Ausheizens von Einzel− und Mehrkornproben zu setzen. 40Ar/39Ar−Datierungen an einzelnen Feldspäten haben den Vorteil, dass sich ein vorhandener Überschuss von 40Ar oder Kontaminationen detritischer Körner leicht feststellen lassen und in der Altersberechnung berücksichtigt werden können. Mehrkornanalysen zeigen diese Hürden nur bei intensiver Kontamination und bergen die Gefahr, radiometrische Alter zu bestimmen, die von dem tatsächlichen geologischen Alter abweichen, weil sie zu alt sind. 40Ar/39Ar−Datierungen in dieser Dissertation wurden deshalb für die meisten Proben mithilfe von Mehrkornanalysen und (wenn vorhanden) in Kombination mit wenigen Einzelkornanalysen durchgeführt. Bis auf die Resultate zweier Proben sind die radiometrischen Alter der Feldspäte statistisch gesehen identisch zu den Altersabschätzungen des klimastratigraphischen Altersmodells. Abweichungen zeigen ausschließlich ältere radiometrische Alter einzelner Kornfraktionen. Die beiden abweichenden Proben sind ebenfalls älter als das Altersmodell. Eine statistische Auswertung mittels t−Tests beweist die Abweichungen der radiometrischen von den klimastratigraphischen Altersdaten. Das Altersmodell wurde mit jedem der radiometrischen Alter innerhalb eines stratigraphischen Einzugsbereichs von ± 10 Metern verglichen. Die Konkordanz der Altershinweise aus unterschiedlichen Klimaproxies und aus geophysikalischen Altershinweisen (durch das Identifizieren zeitlich bekannter Variationen des Erdmagnetfelds) legen nahe, dass beiden Abweichungen fehlerhafte 40 Ar/39 Ar−Datierungen zugrunde liegen. Zwei mögliche Ursachen werden in Betracht gezogen: (1) unregelmäßiges beziehungsweise vereinzeltes Auftreten von überschüssigem 40Ar im Zusammenhang mit Schmelz− und Fluideinschlüssen oder (2) Kontamination der Probe mit älteren, xenokristischen Feldspäten durch eine zügige (im Zeitraum von Tagen) Kombination von magmatischer Assimilation und Auswurf des Materials. Ebenfalls nicht auszuschließen ist eine detritische Kontamination. Die normalverteilten 40Ar/39Ar−Werte der Proben sind allerdings untypisch für eine detritische Kontamination. Je ein Aliquot der selektierten Kristallfraktionen wurde intensiv auf vorhandene Zonierungen untersucht. Alle untersuchten Feldspatproben zeigen Elementzonierungen, die sich einteilen lassen. Die Zonierungen sind entweder kompositionelle Zonierungen der Hauptzusammensetzung („C-type – compositional type“), pseudo-oszillatorische Zonierungen gewisser Spurenelementkonzentrationen („PO-type“), konzentrische Zonierungen von Spurenelementkonzentrationen („CC-type – concentric type“) und chaotisch-fleckige Zonierungsmuster („R-type – resorbed and patchy“). Proben, deren 40Ar/39Ar−Alter abweichen, zeigen Zonierungen in ihrer Hauptzusammensetzung (C-type), fleckige Zonierungen (R-type) oder zeigen eine Mischung aus unterschiedlichen Zonierungstypen (C-type und PO-type). Feldspäte, die ausschließlich eine Zonierung ihrer Spurenelmente (PO-type) zeigen, liegen typischerweise in kleineren Korngrößen vor und markieren Zusammensetzungen, die typisch sind für die spätesten Phasen der magmatischen Entwicklung von Feldspäten in peralkalinen Gesteinen. Diese Kristalle sind in der Regel arm an Schmelzeinschlüssen und nur selten korrodiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit weist Feldspäte, die keine Zonierung in ihrer Hauptzusammensetzung, sondern nur pseudo-oszillatorische Spurenelementvariationen aufzeigen, als ideale Chronometer für die Anwendung der 40Ar/39Ar−Methode an Quartären, kaliumarmen Feldspäten aus. Um Abweichende Proben erneut zu analysieren und um stratigraphische Abschnitte zu datieren, die nicht erfolgreich beprobt werden konnten, wurden fünf Proben datiert, indem die 40Ar/39Ar−Methode auf vulkanisches Glas angewendet wurde. Hohe Gehalte an atmosphärischem Argon (in der Regel > 98 %) führten allerdings zu ungenauen radiometrischen Altersbestimmungen, die aufgrund ihrer großen Fehler keine Abweichungen vom Altersmodell zeigen. Die Gläser zeigen Hinweise darauf, dass Variationen in den Altern der Feldspäte auf die Gegenwart eines Ar-Reservoirs in Schmelzeinschlüssen zurückzuführen sein könnte, das weder radiogen noch atmosphärisch ist. Ob eine Verknüpfung der Ar-Isotopien in vulkanischen Gläsern und in Porenwässern gegeben ist, bleibt offen. Instrumentelle und methodische Hürden lassen nur eine Vermutung zu, dass Porenwässer und vulkanische Gläser in ihren Ar-Isotopendaten eine Verknüpfung zeigen könnten. Ein neues Alterstiefenmodell, das ebenfalls auf der Interpolation von Altershinweisen durch Klimaproxies und geophysikalischer Daten basiert wird in dieser Arbeit ebenfalls vorgelegt. Im Gegensatz zu bestehenden „Spline“-Interpolationen wurde in dieser Dissertation eine PCHIP- Interpolation bevorzugt. Abgesehen von abweichenden Proben wurden allen Proben, die mithilfe der 40Ar/39Ar−Methode an Feldspäten datiert sind, zusätzlich ein klimastratigraphisches Modellalter zugewiesen. Diese Modellalter bieten die Grundlage dafür, das Alter des in der Datierung benutzten Mineralstandards (Alder Creek Sanidine) nachrechnen zu können. Die erfolgreiche klimastratigraphische Kalibrierung des Standards beweist, dass Alterstiefenmodelle aus den PALEOVAN-Bohrkernen genau sind, und dass alle verwendeten Chronometer innerhalb der angezeigten Varianzen ein synchrones Timing zulassen. Die Dissertation bietet petrochemische Charakterisierungen der entnommenen Proben an und diskutiert nachvollziehbar mögliche Provenanzen der Pyroklastite. 41 von 57 entnommenen Proben lassen sich Nemrut zuordnen. Kriterien, die für eine Zuordnung herangezogen wurden, werden aufgezeigt und diskutiert. Eine mögliche Korrelation der datierten Proben zu pyroklastischen Einheiten, die in der Literatur an den Hängen der Stratovulkane im Detail beschrieben wurden, wird ebenfalls diskutiert. Die beprobten pyroklasitischen Lagen haben geringe Mächtigkeiten (in der Regel < 40 cm) und liegen mittleren bis kleineren Eruptionen zugrunde. Diese Eruptionen hinterlassen keine oder nur schwer definierbare pyroklastische Einheiten von geringer Mächtigkeit an Land. Eine genaue Korrelation ist mit den hier präsentierten Daten deshalb nicht oder nur sehr vage möglich. Abweichende radiometrische Alter aus Datierungen von Feldspat könnten im Zusammenhang mit vererbtem 40Ar aus Xenokristallen stehen. Um diese Hypothese zu testen, wurden diffusionsabhängige Konzentrationsschwankungen von Barium in zonierten Feldspäten untersucht. Da das diffusive Verhalten von Barium in Feldspat bekannt ist, kann durch die Analyse des Konzentrationsgradienten die Dauer der magmatischen Entwicklung ab der Bildung der untersuchten Zonierung berechnet werden. Diese Zeitspanne wurde genutzt, um zu modellieren, ob Xenokristalle während einer unvollständigen Assimilation komplett entgast werden. Dafür wurde angenommen, dass das diffusive Angleichen von unterschiedlichen Bariumkonzentrationen maximale Werte für die Dauer von der Assimilation bis zum Auswurf liefert. Die Modellierung zeigt, dass vererbtes 40Ar aus Xenokristallen keinen Anteil an den abweichenden Altern haben. Allerdings sind die erhobenen Diffusionsgradienten am Rande der benötigten analytischen Auflösung, und eine Überschätzung der Dauer der magmatischen Prozesse kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden. Die Diffusionsprofile sind ein weiterer Hinweis dafür, dass unregelmäßige beziehungsweise vereinzelte Quellen von überschüssigem 40Ar die schwierigste Hürde für 40Ar/39Ar−Datierungen an ICDP-PALEOVAN Bohrkernen darstellen. Die vorgelegte Arbeit bietet nicht nur 40Ar/39Ar−Datierungen, um das vorhandene Altersmodell kritisch zu diskutieren, sondern zeigt, wie Abweichungen statistisch zu erfassen sind, welche mineralogischen Beobachtungen in die Interpretation abweichender radiometrischer Alter miteinbezogen werden sollten und wie die Synchronizität verschiedener Chronometer getestet werden kann. Die Korrektheit des klima-stratigraphischen Timings der PALEOVAN Kerne ist mit dieser Arbeit nachgewiesen. Vergleiche der Proxydaten zu anderen Klimaarchiven deren Auflösung sogar höher als die der Milankovitchzyklen ist (die Auflösung der Dnsgaard-Oeschger Ereignisse), existieren für viele Kerne des PALEOVAN-Archivs. Die Kerne aus dem PALEOVAN Projekt repräsentieren damit ein Schlüsselarchiv für die Rekonstruktion des Klimas im Nahen Osten. Dieses Archiv bietet ein klima-stratigraphisches Altersmodell von bemerkenswerter Genauigkeit und Auflösung. KW - Lake Van KW - feldspar KW - lacustrine record KW - volcaniclastics KW - 40Ar/39Ar KW - Vansee KW - Feldspat KW - lakustrine Abfolge KW - Vulkaniklastika KW - 40Ar/39Ar Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-429539 ER -