Pollen record and age determinations of a profile at Cape Mamontov Klyk, Siberia ...

• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Grosse, Guido, Kunitsky, Victor V, Magens, Diana, Meyer, Hanno, Dereviagin, Alexander Yu, Kuznetsova, Tatyana V, Andreev, Andrei A, Babiy, O, Kienast, Frank, Grigoriev, Mikhail N, Overduin, Pier Paul, Preusser, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: Sampling by hand; RU-Land_2003_Lena; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn; Ice; Ice Sheet; International Polar Year; IPY; Magnetic susceptibility; permafrost; Taymyr; Taymyr Peninsula; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.736029; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.736029

Non-glaciated Arctic lowlands in north-east Siberia were subjected to extensive landscape and environmental changes during the Late Quaternary. Coastal cliffs along the Arctic shelf seas expose terrestrial archives containing numerous palaeoenvironmental indicators (e.g., pollen, plant macro-fossils and mammal fossils) preserved in the permafrost. The presented sedimentological (grain size, magnetic susceptibility and biogeochemical parameters), cryolithological, geochronological (radiocarbon, accelerator mass spectrometry and infrared-stimulated luminescence), heavy mineral and palaeoecological records from Cape Mamontov Klyk record the environmental dynamics of an Arctic shelf lowland east of the Taymyr Peninsula, and thus, near the eastern edge of the Eurasian ice sheet, over the last 60 Ky. This region is also considered to be the westernmost part of Beringia, the non-glaciated landmass that lay between the Eurasian and the Laurentian ice caps during the Late Pleistocene. Several units and subunits of ... : Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150 ...