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Temporal and spatial climatic controls on Holocene fire-related erosion and sedimentation, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Erin P. Fitch  and
Grant A. Meyer
Erin P. Fitch*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Grant A. Meyer
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
*
⁎Corresponding author at: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. E-mail address:[email protected] (E.P. Fitch), [email protected] (G.A. Meyer).
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Abstract

In the Jemez Mountains, tree-ring data indicate that low-severity fires characterized the 400 yr before Euro-American settlement, and that subsequent fire suppression promoted denser forests, recent severe fires, and erosion. Over longer timescales, climate change may alter fire regimes; thus, we used fire-related alluvial deposits to assess the timing of moderate- to high-severity fires, their geomorphic impact, and relation to climate over the last 4000 yr. Fire-related sedimentation does not clearly follow millennial-scale climatic changes, but probability peaks commonly correspond with severe drought, e.g., within the interval 1700–1400 cal yr BP, and ca. 650 and ca. 410 cal yr BP. The latter episodes were preceded by prolonged wet intervals that could promote dense stands. Estimated recurrence intervals for fire-related sedimentation are 250–400 yr. Climatic differences with aspect influenced Holocene post-fire response: fire-related deposits constitute 77% of fan sediments from north-facing basins but only 39% of deposits from drier southerly aspects. With sparser vegetation and exposed bedrock, south aspects can generate runoff and sediment when unburned, whereas soil-mantled north aspects produce minor sediment unless severely burned. Recent channel incision appears unprecedented over the last 2300 yr, suggesting that fuel loading and extreme drought produced an anomalously severe burn in 2002.

Keywords

PaleofireAlluvial fansSedimentary charcoalErosionGeomorphologyRadiocarbonFire historyPonderosa pineNew Mexico
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Quaternary Research , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 75 - 86
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University of Washington

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