High latitude Southern Hemisphere fire history during the Mid-Late Holocene (750–6000 yr BP)

Abstract. High latitude Southern Hemisphere fire history was reconstructed by determining the specific biomarker levoglucosan in ice cores from the TALos Dome Ice CorE drilling project (TALDICE) during the Mid-Late Holocene (750–6000 yr BP). Potassium was also analyzed in order to provide a comparison with another fire proxy to create a more robust biomass burning record. The levoglucosan record is characterized by a long-term increase with higher rates starting at ~ 4000 yr BP and higher peaks between 1500 and 2500 yr BP. Comparisons with charcoal syntheses help evaluate fire sources, showing a possible higher contribution from Patagonian fires rather than Australian biomass burning. We interpret the anomalous increase in levoglucosan centred at ~ 2000 yr BP as a combination of the atmospheric transport pathway and the interplay between climatic factors.

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