Universität zu Köln

Cherezova, Anna A., Fedorov, Grigory B., Raschke, Elena A., Rethemeyer, Janet, Bolshiyanov, Dmitry Y., Yozhikov, Ilya S., Spiridonov, Igor G., Bazhenova, Evgenia A., Sokolov, Vladimir T. and Melles, Martin ORCID: 0000-0003-0977-9463 (2020). Lateglacial and Holocene palaeoenvironments on Bolshevik Island (Severnaya Zemlya), Russian High Arctic. Boreas, 49 (2). S. 375 - 389. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1502-3885

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Abstract

The late Quaternary climatic and environmental history of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago in the Russian High Arctic has been the focus of many palaeoenvironmental studies since the 1970s. However, the existing data are highly fragmentary and sometimes contradictory. New information concerning the archipelago's environmental history was derived from a 2.46-m-long sediment core from Lake Tvyordoe, located in the northwestern part of Bolshevik Island. The core was investigated by a multi-proxy approach that comprises radiocarbon dating as well as lithological, granulometrical, palynological and geochemical analyses. The results provide new insights into the vegetation history as well as changes in lake level, lake-ice cover, and water and sediment input since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Fine-grained, laminated sediments at the core base, which were dated to c. 24.2 cal. ka BP, suggest lacustrine sedimentation under a permanent ice cover with low meltwater supply. This, along with a lack of glacial and glacial-lacustrine deposits, supports earlier assumptions that Bolshevik Island was not covered by the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the LGM. Furthermore, even the Mushketov Ice Cap, the closest ice mass to Lake Tvyordoe, did not expand from the denudation plateau to the lake. During the terminal Pleistocene, starting c. 14.5 cal. ka BP, warmer and wetter climate conditions resulted in higher sediment loads. The most favourable environmental conditions prevailed on Bolshevik Island throughout the Early and Middle Holocene (c. 11.7-6.5 cal. ka BP), when low shrub tundra associations with dwarf birch, willow and alder dominated the vegetation. After c. 10.0 cal. ka BP, a shift to climate drying occurred, which, after 6.5 cal. ka BP, was accompanied by a climate cooling. The Late Holocene climate, according to pollen data (suggesting sparse lichen-moss-grass cover) and relatively low total organic carbon (TOC) contents, was rather similar to that during the Lateglacial.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Cherezova, Anna A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fedorov, Grigory B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Raschke, Elena A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rethemeyer, Janet UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bolshiyanov, Dmitry Y. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Yozhikov, Ilya S. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Spiridonov, Igor G. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bazhenova, Evgenia A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sokolov, Vladimir T. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Melles, Martin UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0977-9463 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-348320
DOI:	10.1111/bor.12428
Journal or Publication Title:	Boreas
Volume:	49
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 375 - 389
Date:	2020
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1502-3885
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language NAUK ICE CAP; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LAKE ELGYGYTGYN; CORE; CLIMATE; RECORD; VARIABILITY; ARCHIPELAGO; CHRONOLOGY; VEGETATION Multiple languages Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34832