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Sedimentary stratigraphy of Lake Chalco (Central Mexico) during its formative stages

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Lake Chalco lies south of the Basin of Mexico and has been the subject of studies related to Late Quaternary climate variability. In 2016, the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program “MexiDrill Project” recovered a 520-m sediment record from Lake Chalco. Magnetic susceptibility measurements revealed substantial changes in sediment physical properties between 343 and 285 m depth, suggesting changes in composition associated with fluctuations in the depositional environment. We targeted sediments in the 343–285 m interval for high-resolution facies analysis, to develop a model of Lake Chalco formation. We identified three facies associations, using sediment composition, texture, mineralogy and micro-morphological characteristics: (1) detrital facies, consisting of laminated silt, massive sand, stratified silty sand, clast-supported gravel and matrix-supported gravel; (2) biogenic facies, which include diatom ooze and bivalve coquina; and (3) volcaniclastic facies, represented by clast-supported pumice deposits. We propose that formation of Lake Chalco occurred in four stages, which we identified by changes in sediment characteristics. The first stage was an alluvial delta environment, in which debris and hyper-concentrated flows were the main sediment transport agents. The second was characterized by turbulent flows in a fluvial deltaic environment, which alternated with laminar flows associated with floodplains. The third stage was a time of fluvio-lacustrine transition in the basin, with formation of the previously identified Paleo-Chalco-I Lake, in response to wet conditions. During the fourth stage, a deep eutrophic lake formed (Paleo-Chalco-II), with an origin that appears to have been related to regional volcanism. Our working age-depth model indicates establishment of the lake at ca. 400 ± 46 ka. This paper presents the only available record of the transition from alluvial to lacustrine sedimentation of Lake Chalco. Our results allow us to establish (1) how the lake was formed and what the phases of its development were, (2) how a major volcanic event altered and transformed the lacustrine sedimentation, and (3) which climatic conditions dominated during the lake formation. The age for the onset of the lacustrine sedimentation in Chalco is for the first time constrained to around 400 ka. This enables to expand our knowledge of the climate for a time for which there is no information from terrestrial records of tropical North America.

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source types come from Meyers and Teranes (2001). b Percent total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) that shows the main source of organic material among the sedimentary facies. c TN versus TOC/TN ratio that shows the main source of organic material in Paleo-Chalco-I and Paleo-Chalco-II. Arrows indicate the evolution of the paleolake. d Relation between δ13C and δ15N that shows limnological conditions in Paleo-Chalco-I and Paleo-Chalco-II. Arrow indicates the evolution of Paleo-Chalco-I

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Modified from Lozano-García and Sosa-Nájera (2015). On the right is a map showing locations of the TX-1, SLT and CHA sites

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This work was funded by: UNAM DGAPA-PAPIIT IV100215 and IN105918, the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP Project 05-2014), the US National Science Foundation (NSF-EAR1551311, NFS-EAR1803725), the CONACYT National Scholarship Program (CVU/Student: 854008/629653). Special thanks to the local authorities of Ejido Santiago Tulyehualco and the MexiDrill Team, who assisted with many aspects of the field work. We thank the LacCore staff and others who helped with sediment analyses: Susana Sosa Najera, Cecilia Caballero, Ana Ma. Soler, Sandra García León, Elena Royo, Raquel López, Cinta Osácar and Jaime Díaz Ortega. Rodrigo Martínez thanks UNAM’s Academic Writing Program for its guidance in the preparation of this manuscript. We appreciate the comments and corrections of Dr. Mark Brenner and an anonymous reviewer that improved the early manuscript.

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  1. Posgrado en Ciencias de La Tierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico

    Rodrigo Martínez-Abarca

  2. Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico

    Beatriz Ortega-Guerrero & Margarita Caballero

  3. Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico

    Socorro Lozano-García

  4. Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Apdo 13034, 50080, Zaragoza, Spain

    Blas Valero-Garcés

  5. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, MA, USA

    David McGee

  6. Large Lakes Observatory & Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, 55812, USA

    Erik T. Brown & Mona Stockhecke

  7. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Alastair G. E. Hodgetts

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Martínez-Abarca, R., Ortega-Guerrero, B., Lozano-García, S. et al. Sedimentary stratigraphy of Lake Chalco (Central Mexico) during its formative stages. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 110, 2519–2539 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01964-z

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