A very high quality 160 year-long annually laminated (varved) sediments sequence of fluvial origin was recently discovered in an especially deep lake in Labrador. Each varve represents one hydrological year. A significant relation between varve's physical parameters (i.e. thickness and grain size extracted from each annual lamination) and river discharge instrumental observations provided the opportunity to develop regional discharge reconstructions beyond the instrumental period.
A very high quality 160 year-long annually laminated (varved) sediments sequence of fluvial...
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Reconstructing past hydrology of eastern Canadian boreal catchments using clastic varved sediments and hydro-climatic modeling: 160 years of fluvial inflows
Antoine Gagnon-Poiré1,5,Pierre Brigode2,Pierre Francus1,3,5,David Fortin1,6,Patrick Lajeunesse4,5,Hugues Dorion4,and Annie-Pier Trottier4,5Antoine Gagnon-Poiré et al.Antoine Gagnon-Poiré1,5,Pierre Brigode2,Pierre Francus1,3,5,David Fortin1,6,Patrick Lajeunesse4,5,Hugues Dorion4,and Annie-Pier Trottier4,5
Received: 29 Jun 2020 – Accepted for review: 14 Jul 2020 – Discussion started: 20 Jul 2020
Abstract. Analysis of short sediment cores collected in Grand Lake, Labrador, revealed that this lake is an excellent candidate for the preservation of laminated sediments record. The great depth of Grand Lake, the availability of fine sediments along its tributaries, and its important seasonal river inflow have favored the formation of a 160 years-long clastic varved sequence. Each varve represents one hydrological year. Varve formation is mainly related to spring discharge conditions with minor contributions from summer and autumn rainfall events. The statistically significant relation between varve parameters and the Naskaupi river discharge observations provided the opportunity to develop local hydrological reconstructions beyond the instrumental period. Mean detrital layer thickness and the grain-size (99th percentile) series extracted from each varve yields the strongest correlations with instrumental data (r = 0.69 and 0.76) and have been used to reconstruct Naskaupi River mean and maximum annual discharges, respectively, over the 1856–2016 period. The reconstructed Q-mean series suggest that high Q-mean years occurred during the 1925–1960 period and a slight decrease in Q-mean take place during the second half of the 20th century. Independent reconstructions based on rainfall-runoff modeling of the watershed from historical reanalysis of global geopotential height fields display a significant correlation with the reconstructed Naskaupi River discharge based on varve physical parameters. The Grand Lake varved sequence contains a regional hydroclimatic signal as suggested by the statistically significant relation between mean detrital layer thickness series and the observed Labrador region Q-mean series extracted from five watersheds of different size and location.
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A very high quality 160 year-long annually laminated (varved) sediments sequence of fluvial origin was recently discovered in an especially deep lake in Labrador. Each varve represents one hydrological year. A significant relation between varve's physical parameters (i.e. thickness and grain size extracted from each annual lamination) and river discharge instrumental observations provided the opportunity to develop regional discharge reconstructions beyond the instrumental period.
A very high quality 160 year-long annually laminated (varved) sediments sequence of fluvial...