Kettle Lake

Location:	North Dakota, USA	Latitude (N):	48.61°	Longitude (W):	103.62°
Site notes:

Clark, J. S., E. C. Grimm, J. J. Donovan, S. C. Fritz, D. R. Engstrom, and J. E. Almendinger 2002

Drought cycles and landscape responses to past aridity on prairies of the northern Great Plains, USA. Ecology 83(3):595-601.
AEU SCI QH 540 E19 Site discussed: Kettle Lake. Site is in mixed prairie ecoregion. Looked at several proxies, including detrital quartz, endogenic aragonite, pollen (Poaceae and Ambrosia percentages), and charcoal. Examined a 50 cm core segment from mid-Holocene (8500 - 7900 calendar yr BP) and noted marked fluctuations in the proxies, reflecting moister and drier intervals. Detected a periodicity of 100 - 130 yrs in this pattern. A second core segment (2950 - 2700 calendar yr BP) did not show the same patterning.

Clark, J. S., E. C. Grimm, J. Lynch, and P. G. Mueller 2001

Effects of Holocene Climate Change in the C₄ Grassland/Woodland Boundary in the Northern Plains, USA. Ecology 82(3):620-636.
AEU SCI QH 540 E19 Sites discussed: Deming Lake, Brush Lake, Kettle Lake, Lake Cochrane, Dark Lake, Moon Lake, Fish Lake.

Donovan, J. J., and E. C. Grimm 2007

Episodic Struvite Deposits in a Northern Great Plains Flyway Lake: Indicators of Mid-Holocene Drought? The Holocene 17(8):1155-1169.
AEU SCI QE 699 H62 DOI: 10.1177/0959683607082556 Site discussed: Kettle Lake. Struvite is a mineral associated with guano, in this case thought to be derived from use of the lake by waterfowl. It occurs in 34 layers, spanning the early to late-mid Holocene, with none in the last 2800 years. Layers do not correlate with mid-Holocene drought intervals, as inferred from other evidence and other lakes in the region. (10/10/2009).

Grimm, E. C. 2001

Trends and palaeoecological problems in the vegetation and climate history of the northern Great Plains, USA. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences 101B(1-2):47-64.
Sites discussed: Kettle Lake, Rice Lake, Spiritwood, Moon Lake, Pickerel Lake, Medicine Lake, Rosebud, Devils Lake.

Grimm, E. C., J. J. Donovan, and K. J. Brown 2011

A high resolution record of climate variability and landscape response from Kettle Lake, northern Great Plains, North America. Quaternary Science Reviews 30:2626-2650.
AEU SCI QE 696 Q245 DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.015 Site discussed: Kettle Lake. Discusses the pollen, mineralogy (especially aragonite and calcite), and charcoal records. Interpretation focusses on moisture patterns. (18/05/2012).

Yansa, C. H. 2006

The Timing and Nature of Late Quaternary Vegetation Changes in the Northern Great Plains, USA and Canada: A Re-assessment of the Spruce Phase. Quaternary Science Reviews 25:263-281.
Sites discussed: Rosebud, Strouckel, Cottonwood Lake (SD), Medicine Lake (SD), Coldwater Lake (ND), Wendel, Tappen, Moon Lake (ND), Johns Lake, Rice Lake (ND), Kettle Lake, Scrimbit, Andrews, Hafichuk, Neufeld, Herbert, Kyle, Clearwater Lake (Sask), Beechy, Dinsmore, Riding Mountain (Lake E). Six sites form the main focus of the paper: Wendel, Coldwater Lake, Andrews, Kyle, Beechy, and Neufeld.

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