High-resolution, multiproxy palaeoenvironmental changes recorded from Two Mile Lake, southern Western Australia: implications for Ramsar-listed playa sites
C. Gouramanis A E , P. De Deckker B , D. Wilkins C and J. Dodson D
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A Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
B Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT 0200, Australia.
C Parks Australia, Department of the Environment, Kakadu National Park, Jabiru, NT 0866, Australia.
D Institute for Earth Environments, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
E Corresponding author. Email: cgouramanis@ntu.edu.sg
Marine and Freshwater Research 67(6) 748-770 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF14193
Submitted: 3 July 2014 Accepted: 10 February 2015 Published: 31 August 2015
Abstract
Numerous saline playa lakes exist across the arid, semiarid and temperate regions of Australia. These playa lakes exhibit a diverse range of hydrological conditions to which the Australian aquatic invertebrate biota have become adapted and which the biota can utilise as refugia in times of hydrological deterioration. Saline playas also yield palaeoenvironmental records that can be used to infer lacustrine and catchment responses to environmental variability.
We present a palaeoenvironmental record recovered from Two Mile Lake, a saline playa from southern Western Australia. Dating, based on quartz optical luminescence and 14C accelerator mass spectrometry of biogenic carbonates and organic fibres, suggests that most of the sediment was rapidly deposited at 4.36 ± 0.25 thousand years ago. Ostracods and non-marine foraminifera preserved in the sediment show periods of faunal colonisation of the lake with oscillations between hypersaline and oligosaline conditions. The geochemistry of ostracod valves and foraminifera tests suggests higher-frequency variability within the lake, and palynological changes indicate landscape changes, possibly in response to fire. The Two Mile Lake record highlights the utility of saline playas as archives of environmental change that can be used to guide wetland health management, particularly under the impacts of a changing climate.
Additional keywords: 14C AMS, foraminifera, Holocene, Modern Analogue Technique, ostracods, pollen, quartz optical dating, saline playa, stable isotopes, trace metals.
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