Comparison of Lamination Stratigraphies in Cores Recovered from Different Locations in Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norway, 2007

• Main Author: Bennet H. Leon
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2013
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SEDIMENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > SEDIMENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > SEDIMENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > VARVE DEPOSITS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > ENTRAINMENT; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SEDIMENTATION; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > DEGRADATION; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > SUSPENDED SOLIDS; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > SAMPLERS > GRABBERS/TRAPS/COLLECTORS > SEDIMENT TRAPS; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CORERS > SEDIMENT CORERS; EARTH REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS > PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING > POSITIONING/NAVIGATION > GPS > GPS > GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > PROBES > PROBES; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CORERS > CORING DEVICES; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > PROBES > STEEL MEASURING TAPE; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CURRENT/WIND METERS > CURRENT METERS; MANNED FIELD STATION; HOURLY TO DAILY; DAILY TO WEEKLY; 1 MINUTE TO 1 HOUR; WEEKLY TO MONTHLY; inlandWaters; environment; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; Arctic; Svalbard; Longyearbyen; Norway; Jan Mayen; Linnévatnet; Climate change; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A21J9769B

Due to the sensitivity of high latitude regions to global climate change, it is important to understand the role and response of the arctic environment to past climatic events. Lacustrine sediments can provide a useful archive of past environmental change preserved in structural, textural, and compositional variation. Linnévatnet, a large proglacial lake on Svalbard in the Norwegian High Arctic, contains a long record of annually laminated (varved) sediments. This study provides a high resolution sedimentation chronology from the lamination stratigraphy since 1963. Sediment cores were retrieved during fieldwork conducted in 2006 from sites along two transects. Using digital imagesof continuous thin sections, annual sediment couplets and intra-annual deposition laminae were identified. Laminae were visually correlated from proximal to distal coring sites and down to the depth of a 1963 137-Cs age (~20cm). The data indicate a complex sedimentary environment across the basin affecting varve formation. Preliminary comparisons to temperature and precipitation records from Longyearbyen suggest a relationship between laminae thickness and precipitation. The sediment record in Linnévatnet may potentially contains a high resolution proxy for changing climatic and glacial conditions of Svalbard during the late Holocene.