Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands
Ice-wedge polygons are common features of northeastern Siberian lowland periglacial tundra landscapes. To deduce the formation and alternation of ice-wedge polygons in the Kolyma Delta and in the Indigirka Lowland, we studied shallow cores, up to 1.3 m deep, from polygon center and rim locations. Th...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:50343 2024-09-15T17:49:03+00:00 Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands Schirrmeister, Lutz Bobrov, Anatoly Raschke, Elena Herzschuh, Ulrike Strauss, Jens Pestryakova, Luidmila A. Wetterich, Sebastian 2018-04-01 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50343/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50343/1/Schirrmeister_et_al_AAAR_2018.pdf https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1462595 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.9f9b9758-be94-4e99-af3e-8d62ec01f4f7 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50343/1/Schirrmeister_et_al_AAAR_2018.pdf Schirrmeister, L. orcid:0000-0001-9455-0596 , Bobrov, A. , Raschke, E. orcid:0000-0001-5247-8186 , Herzschuh, U. orcid:0000-0003-0999-1261 , Strauss, J. orcid:0000-0003-4678-4982 , Pestryakova, L. A. orcid:0000-0001-5347-4478 and Wetterich, S. orcid:0000-0001-9234-1192 (2018) Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands , Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 50 (1), e1462595 . doi:10.1080/15230430.2018.1462595 <https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1462595> , hdl:10013/epic.9f9b9758-be94-4e99-af3e-8d62ec01f4f7 EPIC3Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 50(1), pp. e1462595, ISSN: 1523-0430 Article isiRev 2018 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1462595 2024-06-24T04:22:11Z Ice-wedge polygons are common features of northeastern Siberian lowland periglacial tundra landscapes. To deduce the formation and alternation of ice-wedge polygons in the Kolyma Delta and in the Indigirka Lowland, we studied shallow cores, up to 1.3 m deep, from polygon center and rim locations. The formation of well-developed low-center polygons with elevated rims and wet centers is shown by the beginning of peat accumulation, increased organic matter contents and changes in vegetation cover from Poaceae-, Alnus-, and Betula-dominated pollen spectra to dominating Cyperaceae and Botryoccocus presence, and Carex and Drepanocladus revolvens macro-fossils. Tecamoebae data support such a change from wetland to open-water conditions in polygon centers by changes from dominating eurybiontic and sphagnobiontic to hydrobiontic species assemblages. The peat accumulation indicates low-center polygon formation and started between 2380 ± 30 and 1676 ± 32 years before present (BP) in the Kolyma Delta. We recorded an opposite change from open-water to wetland conditions due to rim degradation and consecutive high-center polygon formation in the Indigirka Lowland between 2144 ± 33 and 1632 ± 32 yrs BP. The late Holocene records of polygon landscape development reveal changes in local hydrology and soil moisture. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarctic and Alpine Research Arctic Tundra Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 50 1 e1462595 |
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Ice-wedge polygons are common features of northeastern Siberian lowland periglacial tundra landscapes. To deduce the formation and alternation of ice-wedge polygons in the Kolyma Delta and in the Indigirka Lowland, we studied shallow cores, up to 1.3 m deep, from polygon center and rim locations. The formation of well-developed low-center polygons with elevated rims and wet centers is shown by the beginning of peat accumulation, increased organic matter contents and changes in vegetation cover from Poaceae-, Alnus-, and Betula-dominated pollen spectra to dominating Cyperaceae and Botryoccocus presence, and Carex and Drepanocladus revolvens macro-fossils. Tecamoebae data support such a change from wetland to open-water conditions in polygon centers by changes from dominating eurybiontic and sphagnobiontic to hydrobiontic species assemblages. The peat accumulation indicates low-center polygon formation and started between 2380 ± 30 and 1676 ± 32 years before present (BP) in the Kolyma Delta. We recorded an opposite change from open-water to wetland conditions due to rim degradation and consecutive high-center polygon formation in the Indigirka Lowland between 2144 ± 33 and 1632 ± 32 yrs BP. The late Holocene records of polygon landscape development reveal changes in local hydrology and soil moisture. |
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Schirrmeister, Lutz Bobrov, Anatoly Raschke, Elena Herzschuh, Ulrike Strauss, Jens Pestryakova, Luidmila A. Wetterich, Sebastian |
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Schirrmeister, Lutz Bobrov, Anatoly Raschke, Elena Herzschuh, Ulrike Strauss, Jens Pestryakova, Luidmila A. Wetterich, Sebastian Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands |
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Schirrmeister, Lutz Bobrov, Anatoly Raschke, Elena Herzschuh, Ulrike Strauss, Jens Pestryakova, Luidmila A. Wetterich, Sebastian |
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Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands |
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Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands |
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Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands |
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Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands |
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Late Holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern Siberian coastal lowlands |
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late holocene ice-wedge polygon dynamics in northeastern siberian coastal lowlands |
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