Impact of the ‘Little Ice Age’ climate cooling on the maar lake ecosystem affected by penguins: A lacustrine sediment record, Penguin Island, West Antarctica

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Wasiłowska, Agnieszka, Tatur, Andrzej, Pushina, Zinajda, Barczuk, Andrzej, Verkulich, Sergey
• Other Authors: National Science Centre, Poland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2017
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Deception Island; Penguin Island; West Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683616683254; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683616683254; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683616683254

A Pliocene-age volcano on Penguin Island became active again in the Pleistocene/Holocene, forming the main cone of the island – Deacon Peak, and leaving late-Holocene phreatomagmatic craters, including ‘Petrel Crater’, about 200 m in diameter and filled currently by a maar lake with a flat bottom at...