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Main Authors: Swann, George E A, Leng, Melanie J, Juschus, Olaf, Melles, Martin, Brigham-Grette, Julie, Sloane, Hilary J
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Published: PANGAEA 2010
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856098
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author Swann, George E A
Leng, Melanie J
Juschus, Olaf
Melles, Martin
Brigham-Grette, Julie
Sloane, Hilary J
author_facet Swann, George E A
Leng, Melanie J
Juschus, Olaf
Melles, Martin
Brigham-Grette, Julie
Sloane, Hilary J
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Determining the response of sites within the Arctic Circle to long-term climatic change remains an essential pre-requisite for assessing the susceptibility of these regions to future global warming and Arctic amplification. To date, existing records from North East Russia have demonstrated significant spatial variability across the region during the late Quaternary. Here we present diatom d18O and d30Si data from Lake El'gygytgyn, Russia, and suggest environmental changes that would have impacted across West Beringia from the Last Glacial Maximum to the modern day. In combination with other records, the results raise the potential for climatic teleconnections to exist between the region and sites in the North Atlantic. The presence of a series of 2-3 per mil decreases in d18Odiatom during both the Last Glacial and the Holocene indicates the sensitivity of the region to perturbations in the global climate system. Evidence of an unusually long Holocene thermal maximum from 11.4 ka BP to 7.6 ka BP is followed by a cooling trend through the remainder of the Holocene in response to changes in solar insolation. This is culminated over the last 900 years by a significant decrease in d18Odiatom of 2.3 per mil, which may be related to a strengthening and easterly shift of the Aleutian Low in addition to possible changes in precipitation seasonality.
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spellingShingle Radiocarbon ages and diatom isotope data for Lake El'gygytgyn sediment core Lz1029
Swann, George E A
Leng, Melanie J
Juschus, Olaf
Melles, Martin
Brigham-Grette, Julie
Sloane, Hilary J
ELGYGYTGYN; Lake Elgygytgyn - Climate History of the Arctic since 3.6 Million Years
Determining the response of sites within the Arctic Circle to long-term climatic change remains an essential pre-requisite for assessing the susceptibility of these regions to future global warming and Arctic amplification. To date, existing records from North East Russia have demonstrated significant spatial variability across the region during the late Quaternary. Here we present diatom d18O and d30Si data from Lake El'gygytgyn, Russia, and suggest environmental changes that would have impacted across West Beringia from the Last Glacial Maximum to the modern day. In combination with other records, the results raise the potential for climatic teleconnections to exist between the region and sites in the North Atlantic. The presence of a series of 2-3 per mil decreases in d18Odiatom during both the Last Glacial and the Holocene indicates the sensitivity of the region to perturbations in the global climate system. Evidence of an unusually long Holocene thermal maximum from 11.4 ka BP to 7.6 ka BP is followed by a cooling trend through the remainder of the Holocene in response to changes in solar insolation. This is culminated over the last 900 years by a significant decrease in d18Odiatom of 2.3 per mil, which may be related to a strengthening and easterly shift of the Aleutian Low in addition to possible changes in precipitation seasonality.
title Radiocarbon ages and diatom isotope data for Lake El'gygytgyn sediment core Lz1029
topic ELGYGYTGYN; Lake Elgygytgyn - Climate History of the Arctic since 3.6 Million Years
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856098