Klug, Martin, Bennike, Ole ORCID: 0000-0002-5486-9946 and Wagner, Bernd ORCID: 0000-0002-1369-7893 (2016). Late Pleistocene to early Holocene environmental changes on Store Koldewey, coastal north-east Greenland. Polar Res., 35. TROMSO: NORWEGIAN POLAR INST. ISSN 1751-8369

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Abstract

A lake sediment sequence from southern Store Koldewey, north-east Greenland, has been investigated using a multidisciplinary approach, including geophysical, geochemical, biogeochemical, biological and sedimentological methods. Chronological constraints are provided by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) C-14 dating of bulk sediment and complemented with published water moss ages. The record consists of three major sediment units. Their individual structural, textural, geophysical and geochemical characteristics indicate variable input of sediment and meltwater due to variable proximity of the ice margin and therefore reflect the growth and decay of a local glacier during the late Weichselian. Radiocarbon dating of bulk sediment samples from the lowermost unit gave ages of 42 to 34 calibrated thousand years (cal Ky B.P.) and indicates that this material is redeposited in the lake basin during or after the ice advance at the end of the Pleistocene. Increased meltwater and sediment input from a retreating ice margin following the Younger Dryas is indicated by the occurrence of a sandy to gravely section. Fine-grained and laminated sediments were deposited during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition and indicate calm sedimentation conditions with an ice margin outside of the lake catchment. The reoccurrence of coarse sediments during the early Holocene may indicate increased meltwater input in response to the cold spell at about 9.3 Kya with increased snow accumulation rather than fluctuations of local glaciers. The dating results furthermore show that AMS C-14 dating of bulk sediment samples deposited during glacier decay in High Arctic environments can give problematic ages.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Klug, MartinUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Bennike, OleUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-5486-9946UNSPECIFIED
Wagner, BerndUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-1369-7893UNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-288479
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v35.21912
Journal or Publication Title: Polar Res.
Volume: 35
Date: 2016
Publisher: NORWEGIAN POLAR INST
Place of Publication: TROMSO
ISSN: 1751-8369
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; EAST GREENLAND; ICE-SHEET; JAMESON LAND; SEA-LEVEL; LAKE; CLIMATE; CHRONOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTSMultiple languages
Ecology; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; OceanographyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28847

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