A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal
Paleoenvironmental potential of lacustrine sediments in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: a review on the state of research
Authors: Nguyễn-Văn Hướng, Unkel Ingmar, Nguyễn-Thùy Dương, Nguyễn-Đình Thái, Quốc Đỗ Trọng, Tùng Đặng Xuân, Hồng Nguyễn Thị, Thành Đinh Xuân, Nguyệt Nguyễn Thị Ánh, Quân Nguyễn Hồng, Hoàn Đào Trung, Trang Nguyễn Thị Huyền, Nhung Phạm Lê Tuyết, Anh Lê Nguyệt, Hà Vũ Văn, Ojala Antti E.K., Schimmelmann Arndt, Sauer Peter
Publisher: Publishing House Science and Technology
Publication year: 2023
Journal: Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences
Journal name in source: VIETNAM JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
Journal acronym: VIETNAM J EARTH SCI
Volume: 45
Issue: 2
First page : 164
Last page: 182
Number of pages: 19
ISSN: 0866-7187
eISSN: 2815-5890
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15625/2615-9783/18281
Web address : https://doi.org/10.15625/2615-9783/18281
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/180402916
Global warming enhances atmospheric moisture loading and will likely affect monsoon strength in Vietnam. Without a long written history in Vietnam, we need to rely on geoarchives such as lake sediments to reconstruct past monsoon variability and regional paleoenvironmental fluctuations and evaluate current climatic trends. Natural lakes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam have the potential to have recorded shifts of the monsoon belt over glacial/interglacial cycles. Since 2016, the EOS Geoscience Research Group at Vietnam National University, Hanoi (EOS group) has collaborated with international partners to collect and analyze Vietnamese lake sediments to reconstruct the Pleistocene-Holocene climate history. Numerous sediment cores have been retrieved from Bi ển H ồ, Ia Bang, Ea Tyn, Ea Sno and Lak lakes between 2016 and 2022. Of special importance is a 25 m long sediment core from Bi ển H ồ Lake (Gia Lai province) covering the last 57 ka, which the team retrieved in April 2021. Sediment cores were analyzed for geochemistry, sedimentology, magnetic susceptibility, and radiocarbon dating. This paper reviews the status of our currently available sedimentary records to assess the paleoenvironmental potential of lacustrine sediments in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Current data suggest that the lakes in the Central Highlands provide reliable sedimentological and geochemical records and bear the potential to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions in Vietnam across several glacial periods, with a high-resolution record at least in the Holocene. The records contribute to quantifying the effects of monsoon variability and assessing the changes in hydrological conditions before and after the onset of human land use by comparing different lakes in the region. Future fieldwork will focus on retrieving longer lake sediment sequences from the Central Highlands, possibly covering the full interglacial-glacial cycle (i.e. the last 125 ka, back to MIS-5e), and on the assessment of comparable lake archives in other parts of Vietnam where the timing and character of monsoon-related climatic variations may have differed.
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