# Rouer Peatland, Luxembourg, 14,000 Year Geochemical, Stable Isotope, and Pollen Data #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 4.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite original publication, NOAA Landing Page URL, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, study title, NOAA Landing Page URL, and date accessed. # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # NOAA_Landing_Page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/34092 # Landing_Page_Description: # # Study_Level_JSON_Metadata: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/json/noaa-lake-34092.json # Study_Level_JSON_Description: JSON metadata of this data file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Data_Type: Paleolimnology # # Dataset_DOI: 10.25921/f5rx-9c64 # # Science_Keywords: #-------------------- # Resource_Links # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/paleolimnology/europe/luxembourg/rouer2021c-n.txt # Data_Download_Description: # # Supplemental_Download_Resource: # Supplemental_Description: # # Related_Online_Resource: # Related_Online_Description: # # Original_Source_URL: # Original_Source_Description: #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2021-09-10 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2021-09-10 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Rouer Peatland, Luxembourg, 14,000 Year Geochemical, Stable Isotope, and Pollen Data #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Schittek, K.; Teichert, L.; Geiger, K.; Knorr, K.-H.; Schneider, S. #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: Geochemical (titanium, iron, carbon, and nitrogen concentrations), stable isotopes (d13C and d15N), and pollen data with charcoal from sediments collected in the Rouer peatland, Luxembourg, for the past 14,000 years. #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Karsten Schittek, Lelaina Teichert, Katrin Geiger, Klaus-Holger Knorr, Simone Schneider # Published_Date_or_Year: 2021-06-01 # Published_Title: A 14,000 year peatland record of environmental change in the southern Gutland region, Luxembourg # Journal_Name: The Holocene # Volume: 31 # Edition: # Issue: 6 # Pages: 1005-1018 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1177/0959683621994645 # Publication_Place: # Publisher: # ISBN: # Online_Resource: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959683621994645 # Other_Reference_Details: # Full_Citation: # Abstract: A Late Pleistocene/Holocene paleoenvironmental record was obtained from the Rouer peatland (5 54'E, 49 45'N; 270 m a.s.l.), located in the Gutland area of southern Luxembourg. A total of six sediment samples were AMS radiocarbon-dated to obtain an age-depth model. XRF analyses and analyses of geochemical proxies of organic matter (TOC, TN, d13C, d15N) were conducted to identify major paleoenvironmental changes in the record. Pollen analysis reveals insights into the vegetation history throughout the last 14,000 cal. yr BP. The record offers unique insights into the evolution of local organic sediment/peat accumulation, as well as into the environmental history of the Gutland region and beyond. The accumulation of organic sediment and peat started at about 13,800 cal. yr BP before present. Until about 6000 cal. yr BP, periods of apparently stable climatic conditions had been interrupted repeatedly by pronounced episodes with increased input of minerogenic matter into the peat matrix (12,700-11,800 cal. yr BP; 11,500-11,300 cal. yr BP; 11,100-10,800 cal. yr BP; 9300 cal. yr BP; 8200 cal. yr BP), indicated by sudden increases of Ti/coh values. After 6000 cal. yr BP, environmental conditions stabilized. Between 4200 and 2800 cal. yr BP, during the Bronze Age, changes in the pollen spectrum indicate an increasing clearance of woodlands. Since the Roman period, an ongoing intensification of grassland farming and agriculture is evidenced. Lowest tree species abundances are witnessed during the Middle Ages. The Modern Era is characterized by enhanced sediment input due to soil erosion. In short, this record complements the Late Pleistocene/Holocene climatic history of the Gutland area and demonstrates that fen peat deposits can be valuable high-resolution paleoclimate archives. #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Naturschutzsyndikat SICONA # Grant: #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: municipality of Redange, Luxembourg # Grant: #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Department for the Environment of the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development (MECDD), Luxembourg # Grant: #-------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: Rouer Peatland # Location: Europe>Western Europe>Luxembourg # Northernmost_Latitude: 49.75 # Southernmost_Latitude: 49.75 # Easternmost_Longitude: 5.9 # Westernmost_Longitude: 5.9 # Elevation_m: 270 #-------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: Rouer2021C-N # Earliest_Year: 7787 # Most_Recent_Year: -1 # Time_Unit: Cal. Year BP # Core_Length_m: 4 # Parameter_Keywords: geochemistry, carbon isotopes # Notes: Core Ro1A #-------------------- # Chronology_Information # Chronology: # Chronology: see age table in paper (Table 1) # Lab# coreDepth(cm) measured 14C measured error (±) # Poz-104047 53.25 750 30 # Poz-104048 75.25 1120 30 # Poz-104049 183.5 2485 30 # Poz-104050 281 7580 50 # Poz-104051 337.5 10610 50 # #-------------------- # Variables # # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/PaST-thesaurus/SKOS/past-thesaurus-v1.0.rdf # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Description: Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus terms, definitions, and relationships in SKOS format. # # Variables format: Short_name what,material,error,units,seasonality,data_type,detail,method,data_format,additional_information # ## Depth depth, , , centimeter, , paleolimnology, , ,N, ## Year age, , , calendar year before present, , paleolimnology, , ,N, ## C carbon, peat, , percent, , paleolimnology, , ,N, ## N nitrogen, peat, , percent, , paleolimnology, , N, ## d13C delta 13C, peat, , per mil, , paleolimnology, , ,N, ## d15N delta 15N, peat, , per mil, , paleolimnology, , ,N, # #-------------------- # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header # Missing_Values: (Value used to flag missing data in the table below) # Depth Year C N d13C d15N 4.2 -1.09 24.77 1.88 -28.0413734 0.8392 9.7 86.35 23.11 1.78 -27.93685588 0.7028 15.2 173.36 24.23 1.8 -28.21081534 0.1218 20.7 259.72 19.1 1.44 -27.69 -0.2763 26.2 345.19 40.35 2.56 -27.47367671 0.3028 31.7 429.54 40.42 2.47 -27.72858399 0.4742 37.4 515.51 41.15 2.5 -28.10279207 0.3826 42.7 593.91 41.97 2.49 -27.88865945 -0.2509 48.2 673.46 42.86 2.58 -27.60699321 0.0669 53.7 750.88 44.1 2.69 -27.52977267 0.6418 59.2 825.52 43.37 2.64 -27.62069559 0.3931 64.7 896.56 42.59 2.67 -27.62755636 0.9076 70.2 963.19 37.75 2.61 -27.617493 1.5813 75.7 1024.63 38.31 2.6 -27.62168911 1.3451 81.2 1081.01 33.21 2.3 -27.74040515 1.3518 86.7 1133.58 36.76 2.5 -27.43822326 1.4503 92.2 1183.66 36.14 2.42 -27.4349385 1.2802 97.5 1230.78 33.12 2.23 -27.86379504 1.3202 102.9 1278.9 33.54 2.21 -27.72932508 0.674 109.3 1337.74 41.45 2.59 -27.70697186 0.4528 116 1403.61 40.33 2.65 -27.62276426 1.113 122.7 1476.17 35.96 2.49 -27.47853759 1.4418 129.3 1556.52 32.48 2.21 -27.8441206 1.0881 136 1649.43 34.8 2.31 -27.93613116 1.2722 142.7 1756.15 35.74 2.29 -28.1490971 1.6646 149.3 1877.07 39.04 2.61 -27.47883478 1.9969 156 2018.23 36.55 2.58 -27.40686779 1.8675 162.7 2180.28 38.8 2.62 -27.45995335 1.6857 169.3 2362.67 47.67 2.93 -27.61998002 1.0803 176 2573.25 50.6 1.23 -27.46487961 -0.4441 182.7 2811.5 56.36 0.98 -27.79 -4.0011 189.1 3064.32 50.84 2.21 -27.4520281 0.0733 196 3362.58 46.15 3.07 -27.35668847 1.2853 203 3690.3 43.32 2.63 -27.38541522 1.1974 209.4 4010.24 44.51 2.63 -27.32433368 0.8128 215.7 4342.45 41.55 2.29 -27.326764 0.7944 221.6 4667.69 46.89 3.32 -27.48495076 0.7991 228.1 5040.2 47.87 3.11 -27.62937985 0.5878 234 5389.81 47.39 3.06 -27.78003901 0.5741 240.5 5785.98 45.59 2.93 -27.31249852 0.9369 246.5 6160.47 38.89 2.6 -27.25583915 1.1734 252.9 6567.63 24.23 1.56 -27.09 0.0405 258.9 6955.11 12.76 0.98 -27.17347289 2.8167 265.3 7373 9.47 0.74 -27.30411521 2.1373 271.6 7787.37 11.94 0.82 -26.96 0.7872