Last Glacial Maximum records in permafrost of the East Siberian Arctic

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Wetterich, Sebastian¹  Rudaya, Natalia²  Tumskoy, Vladimir³  Andreev, Andrei A.⁴  Opel, Thomas⁵  Schirrmeister, Lutz¹  Meyer, Hanno¹ 

[1] Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, Dept Periglacial Res, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany

[2] Inst Archaeol & Ethnog SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

[3] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Fac Geol, Dept Geocyol, Moscow 119899, Russia

[4] Univ Cologne, Inst Geol & Mineral, D-50674 Cologne, Germany

[5] Humboldt Univ, Inst Geog, Dept Climatol, D-10099 Berlin, Germany

关键词: Ice Complex;    Ground ice;    Stable water isotopes;    Pollen;    Yedoma;    New Siberian Archipelago;    Laptev Sea;    Late Pleistocene;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.07.020

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Palaeontological proxy data and cryolithological information from Siberian Arctic permafrost preserves records of late Quaternary climate and environmental conditions in West Beringia and their variability which results from interglacial-glacial and interstadial-stadial dynamics. To date, the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) period has been rather poorly represented in East Siberian permafrost records. Here, we present pollen, sediment, and ground-ice stable water isotope data obtained from coastal exposures on Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Archipelago, Arctic Ocean) that mirror the coldest conditions during the Sartan period between about 26 and 22 ka BP, using pollen and sediment data for summer conditions and stable water isotope data for winter conditions. The pollen record revealed a cold tundra-steppe vegetation with characteristic predominance of grass pollen over sedge pollen while the stable isotope ice-wedges data indicate extremely cold winter temperatures with mean values of delta O-18 of about -37 parts per thousand, delta D of about -290 parts per thousand. Combined with available regional LGM permafrost records that extend from the Taymyr Peninsula in the west to the Yana River lowland in the east, the new data set from Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island indicate that the regional appearance of LGM conditions depended on atmospheric circulation patterns that were influenced by the extent of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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