@article{dfbbc23e3ff44178b823575cc9f913a7,
title = "Mid-Devensian climate and landscape in England: new data from Finningley, South Yorkshire",
abstract = "While there is extensive evidence for the Late Devensian, less is known about Early and Middle Devensian (approx. 110-30 ka) climates and environments in the UK. The Greenland ice-core record suggests the UK should have endured multiple changes, but the terrestrial palaeo-record lacks sufficient detail for confirmation from sites in the British Isles. Data from deposits at Finningley, South Yorkshire, can help redress this. A channel with organic silts, dated 40 314-39 552 cal a BP, contained plant macrofossil and insect remains showing tundra with dwarf-shrub heath and bare ground. Soil moisture conditions varied from free draining to riparian, with ponds and wetter vegetated areas. The climate was probably low arctic with snow cover during the winter. Mutual climatic range (MCR), based on Coleoptera, shows the mean monthly winter temperatures of 222 to 228C and summer ones of 8-148C. Periglacial structures within the basal gravel deposits and beyond the glacial limits indicate cold-climate conditions, including permafrost. A compilation of MCR reconstructions for other Middle Devensian English sites shows that marine isotope stage 3-between 59 and 28 ka-experienced substantial variation in climate consistent with the Greenland ice-core record. The exact correlation is hampered by temporal resolution, but the Finningley site stadial at approximately 40 ka may correlate with the one of the Greenland stadials 7-11.",
keywords = "Coleoptera, Mid-Devensian, periglaciation, plant macrofossils, Trichoptera, Vale of York",
author = "Buckland, {Philip, I} and Bateman, {Mark D.} and Ole Bennike and Buckland, {Paul C.} and Chases, {Brian M.} and Charles Frederick and Malcolm Greenwood and Julian Murton and Della Murton and Eva Panagiotakopulu",
note = "Funding Information: Data accessibility. The datasets supporting this article have been uploaded as part of the electronic supplementary material. The new fossil insect data upon which this paper is based are provided as electronic supplementary material as well as being deposited in the freely available BugsCEP database (www.bugscep.com) and SEAD database (www.sead.se) on publication. DOI{\textquoteright}s and upload to the Neotoma repository (www.neotomadb.org) are available from 2020 for these resources. The compilation of MIS 3 dates is provided as electronic supplementary material, including as much metadata for each date as was obtained through our literature search. The BugsCEP database and software includes all of the MIS 3 beetle data that were used to undertake the climate reconstruction of comparative sites. BugsCEP{\textquoteright}s built in mutual climatic range (MCR) routines were used to calculate all beetle-based climate reconstructions presented. The software is downloadable as an MS Access 2000 database and all code is openly accessible in this file. Authors{\textquoteright} contributions. P.I.B. undertook the beetle-based environmental and climate reconstruction work, co-compiled the comparative sites data and contributed extensively to the text. All other authors contributed equally to the analysis and writing, and are listed in alphabetical order: M.D.B. undertook the OSL dating and interpretation, and contributed to the stratigraphic interpretation. P.C.B. identified the Coleoptera remains, coordinated the collaboration and writing, and contributed to site interpretation. O.B. identified and interpreted the plant macrofossil remains. B.M.C. initiated the fieldwork and interpreted the regional context of the sequence. C.F. recorded the sections and provided additional site data and photographs. M.G. identified and the interpreted the Trichoptera remains. J.M. carried out additional fieldwork on the site and contributed to site interpretation, particularly the fine-grained stratigraphy. D.M. carried out additional fieldwork on the site and contributed to site interpretation. E.P. sampled the organic sediments and identified the Dipterous remains. Competing interests. We have no competing interests. Funding. The lead author{\textquoteright}s research time was funded by Ume{\aa} University Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Acknowledgements. Access to the site was kindly provided by the successive quarry managers of LaFarge/Tarmac. MSc students from Sheffield University helped clear sections. Laura Trinogga at the Doncaster Museum and Dmitri Logunov at the Manchester Museum are thanked for access to insect collections. Geoff Gaunt and members of the QRA fieldtrip 2001 provided stimulating discussions which helped shape this manuscript. Robert Angus kindly confirmed the identification of Helophorus praenanus and Tim Prosser provided the modern climate information. The authors wish to acknowledge the help given by Peter Neu (Germany), Peter Wiberg-Larsen (Denmark), Aki Rinni (Finland), Peter Barnard (UK) and Ian Wallace (UK) for Trichopteran reference specimens, distribution data and taxonomic expertise and Colin Howes for drawing our attention to the vertebrate remains. Ben Price (Natural History Museum, London) provided access to Imaging Facility and Mark Szegner Loughborough University) collate figures 13 and 14. We thank Dr Ian S. Evans and an anonymous reviewer for their careful reading of the manuscript and constructive remarks. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Authors.",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1098/rsos.190577",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
journal = "Royal Society Open Science",
issn = "2054-5703",
publisher = "The Royal Society",
number = "7",
}
