FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality and implications for Norse colonies BT AF PATTERSON, William P. DIETRICH, Kristin A. HOLMDEN, Chris ANDREWS, John T. AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:2,3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:; C1 Univ Saskatchewan, Dept Geol Sci, Saskatchewan Isotope Lab, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada. Univ Colorado, Inst Arctic & Alpine Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. Univ Colorado, Dept Geol Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. C2 UNIV SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA UNIV COLORADO, USA UNIV COLORADO, USA IF 9.771 TC 104 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00231/34231/32834.pdf LA English DT Article CR IMAGES V LEG 1-MD114 IMAGES V LEG 4-MD114 BO Marion Dufresne DE ;climate change;stable isotopes;Vikings;micromilling AB delta(18)O values of mollusks recovered from near-shore marine cores in northwest Iceland quantify significant variation in seasonal temperature over the period from similar to 360 B:C: to similar to A:D: 1660. Twenty-six aragonitic bivalve specimens were selected to represent intervals of climatic interest by using core sedimentological characteristics. Carbonate powder was sequentially micromilled from shell surfaces concordant with growth banding and analyzed for stable oxygen (delta(18)O) and carbon (delta(13)C) isotope values. Because delta(18)O values record subseasonal temperature variation over the lifetime of the bivalves, these data provide the first 2,000-year secular record of North Atlantic seasonality from ca. 360 cal yr B.C. to cal yr A.D. 1660. Notable cold periods (360 B.C. to 240 B.C.; A. D. 410; and A.D. 1380 to 1420) and warm periods (230 B.C. to A.D. 140 and A.D. 640 to 760) are resolved in terms of contrast between summer and winter temperatures and seasonal temperature variability. Literature from the Viking Age (ca. 790 to 1070) during the establishment of Norse colonies (and later) in Iceland and Greenland permits comparisons between the delta(18)O temperature record and historical records, thereby demonstrating the impact of seasonal climatic extremes on the establishment, development, and, in some cases, collapse of societies in the North Atlantic. PY 2010 PD MAR SO Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America SN 0027-8424 PU Natl Acad Sciences VL 107 IS 12 UT 000275898300010 BP 5306 EP 5310 DI 10.1073/pnas.0902522107 ID 34231 ER EF