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Changes in northeast African hydrology and vegetation associated with
Pliocene-Pleistocene sapropel cycles
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Rose C
; Polissar PJ
; Tierney JE
; Filley T
; deMenocal PB
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
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East African climate change since the Late Miocene consisted of persistent
shorter-term, orbital-scale wet-dry cycles superimposed upon a long-term trend
towards more open, grassy landscapes. Either or both of these modes of
palaeoclimate variability may have influenced East African mammalian evolution,
yet the interrelationship between these secular and orbital palaeoclimate signals
remains poorly understood. Here, we explore whether the long-term secular climate
change was also accompanied by significant changes at the orbital-scale. We
develop northeast African hydroclimate and vegetation proxy data for two 100
kyr-duration windows near 3.05 and 1.75 Ma at ODP Site 967 in the eastern
Mediterranean basin, where sedimentation is dominated by eastern Sahara dust
input and Nile River run-off. These two windows were selected because they have
comparable orbital configurations and bracket an important increase in East
African C4 grasslands. We conducted high-resolution (2.5 kyr sampling) multiproxy
biomarker, H- and C-isotopic analyses of plant waxes and lignin phenols to
document orbital-scale changes in hydrology, vegetation and woody cover for these
two intervals. Both intervals are dominated by large-amplitude, precession-scale
(approx. 20 kyr) changes in northeast African vegetation and rainfall/run-off.
The ?(13)Cwax values and lignin phenol composition record a variable but
consistently C4 grass-dominated ecosystem for both intervals (50-80% C4).
Precessional ?Dwax cycles were approximately 20-30? in peak-to-peak amplitude,
comparable with other ?Dwax records of the Early Holocene African Humid Period.
There were no significant differences in the means or variances of the ?Dwax or
?(13)Cwax data for the 3.05 and 1.75 Ma intervals studied, suggesting that the
palaeohydrology and palaeovegetation responses to precessional forcing were
similar for these two periods. Data for these two windows suggest that the
eastern Sahara did not experience the significant increase in C4 vegetation that
has been observed in East Africa over this time period. This observation would be
consistent with a proposed mechanism whereby East African precipitation is
reduced, and drier conditions established, in response to the emergence of modern
zonal sea surface temperature gradients in the tropical oceans between 3 and 2
Ma.This article is part of the themed issue 'Major transitions in human
evolution'.