Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia
Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia S. Wetterich1, F. Kienast2, L. Schirrmeister1, M. Fritz1, A. Andreev3, P. Tarasov4 1Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Department of Periglacial Research, Potsdam, Germany; 2Sencken...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:30334 2024-09-15T18:04:24+00:00 Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia Wetterich, Sebastian Kienast, Frank Schirrmeister, Lutz Fritz, Michael Andreev, Andrei Tarasov, Pavel 2012-04 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30334/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30334/1/Montreal_poster.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39286 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39286.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30334/1/Montreal_poster.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39286.d001 Wetterich, S. , Kienast, F. , Schirrmeister, L. orcid:0000-0001-9455-0596 , Fritz, M. orcid:0000-0003-4591-7325 , Andreev, A. orcid:0000-0002-8745-9636 and Tarasov, P. (2012) Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia , The International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference, Montréal, Canada, 22 April 2012 - 27 April 2012 . hdl:10013/epic.39286 EPIC3The International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference, Montréal, Canada, 2012-04-22-2012-04-27 Conference notRev 2012 ftawi 2024-06-24T04:05:07Z Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia S. Wetterich1, F. Kienast2, L. Schirrmeister1, M. Fritz1, A. Andreev3, P. Tarasov4 1Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Department of Periglacial Research, Potsdam, Germany; 2Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Research Station for Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar, Germany; 3Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Germany; 4Institute of Geological Sciences, Free University Berlin, Germany Perennially frozen ground is widely distributed in Arctic lowlands and beyond. Permafrost responds sensitive to changes in climate conditions. Climate-driven dynamics of landscape, sedimentation and ecology in periglacial regions are frequently recorded in permafrost deposits. The study of late Quaternary permafrost can therefore reveal past glacial-interglacial and stadialinterstadial environmental dynamics. One of the most striking processes under warming climate conditions is the extensive thawing of permafrost (thermokarst) and subsequent surface subsidence. Thermokarst basins promote the development of lakes, whose sedimentological and paleontological records give insights into past interglacial and interstadial (warm). In this paper we present results of qualitative and quantitative reconstructions of climate and environmental conditions for the last Interglacial (MIS 5e, Kazantsevo; ca. 130 to 115 ka ago), the lateglacial Allerød Interstadial (ca. 13 to 11 uncal. ka BP), and the early Holocene (ca. 10.5 to 8 uncal. ka BP). The study was performed in course of the IPY project #15 ‘Past Permafrost’ with permafrost deposits exposed at the coasts of the Dmitry Laptev Strait (East Siberian Sea, East Siberia). The reconstruction based on fossil-rich findings of plants (pollen, macro-remains) and invertebrates (beetles, chironomids, ostracods gastropods). Interglacial vegetation dynamics are reflected in the pollen records by changes from early interglacial ... Conference Object East Siberian Sea IPY laptev permafrost Thermokarst Siberia Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia S. Wetterich1, F. Kienast2, L. Schirrmeister1, M. Fritz1, A. Andreev3, P. Tarasov4 1Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Department of Periglacial Research, Potsdam, Germany; 2Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Research Station for Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar, Germany; 3Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Germany; 4Institute of Geological Sciences, Free University Berlin, Germany Perennially frozen ground is widely distributed in Arctic lowlands and beyond. Permafrost responds sensitive to changes in climate conditions. Climate-driven dynamics of landscape, sedimentation and ecology in periglacial regions are frequently recorded in permafrost deposits. The study of late Quaternary permafrost can therefore reveal past glacial-interglacial and stadialinterstadial environmental dynamics. One of the most striking processes under warming climate conditions is the extensive thawing of permafrost (thermokarst) and subsequent surface subsidence. Thermokarst basins promote the development of lakes, whose sedimentological and paleontological records give insights into past interglacial and interstadial (warm). In this paper we present results of qualitative and quantitative reconstructions of climate and environmental conditions for the last Interglacial (MIS 5e, Kazantsevo; ca. 130 to 115 ka ago), the lateglacial Allerød Interstadial (ca. 13 to 11 uncal. ka BP), and the early Holocene (ca. 10.5 to 8 uncal. ka BP). The study was performed in course of the IPY project #15 ‘Past Permafrost’ with permafrost deposits exposed at the coasts of the Dmitry Laptev Strait (East Siberian Sea, East Siberia). The reconstruction based on fossil-rich findings of plants (pollen, macro-remains) and invertebrates (beetles, chironomids, ostracods gastropods). Interglacial vegetation dynamics are reflected in the pollen records by changes from early interglacial ... |
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Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia |
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Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30334/1/Montreal_poster.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39286.d001 Wetterich, S. , Kienast, F. , Schirrmeister, L. orcid:0000-0001-9455-0596 , Fritz, M. orcid:0000-0003-4591-7325 , Andreev, A. orcid:0000-0002-8745-9636 and Tarasov, P. (2012) Permafrost, landscape and ecosystem responses to late Quaternary warm stages in Northeast Siberia , The International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference, Montréal, Canada, 22 April 2012 - 27 April 2012 . hdl:10013/epic.39286 |
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