Palynology and radiocarbon dating on sediment profile PG1756 from Lake Billyakh, NE Siberia, Russia ...

• Main Authors: Müller, Stefanie, Tarasov, Pavel E, Andreev, Andrei A, Diekmann, Bernhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: Piston corer, UWITEC; RU-Land_2005_Verkhoyansk; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynamik INTERDYNAMIK; Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn; Arctic; Verkhoyansk; Climate change; permafrost; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.708170; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.708170

In this study a radiocarbon-dated pollen record from Lake Billyakh (65°17'N, 126°47'E; 340 m a.s.l.) in the Verkhoyansk Mountains was used to reconstruct vegetation and climate change since about 15 kyr BP (1 kyr=1000 cal. yr). The pollen record and pollen-based biome reconstruction sugges...