(Table 2) Radiocarbon ages of lake sediments from Boresø, East Greenland ...

• Main Authors: Bennike, Ole, Sørensen, Mikkel, Fredskild, Bent, Jacobsen, Bjarne H, Böcher, Jens, Amsinck, Susanne L, Jeppesen, Erik, Andreasen, Claus, Christiansen, Hanne Hvidtfeldt, Humlum, Ole
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: Sample ID; Depth, top/min; Depth, bottom/max; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Age, dated material; Age, dated; Age, dated standard deviation; Calendar age; Age, maximum/old; Age, minimum/young; δ13C; Core drilling; Age, 14C AMS; Age, 14C calibrated; International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; East Greenland; Greenland; Ice Sheet; International Polar Year; IPY; Wollaston forland; Zackenberg
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.807388; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.807388

This chapter provides a review of proxy data from a variety of natural archives sampled in the Wollaston Forland region, central Northeast Greenland. The data are used to describe long-term environmental and climatic changes. The focus is on reconstructing the Holocene conditions particularly in the Zackenberg area. In addition, this chapter provides an overview of the archaeological evidence for prehistoric occupation of the region. The Zackenberg area has been covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet several times during the Quaternary. At the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, about 22,000 years BP), temperatures were much lower than at present, and only very hardy organisms may have survived in the region, even if ice-free areas existed. Marked warming at around 11,700 years BP led to ice recession, and the Zackenberg area was deglaciated in the early Holocene, prior to 10,100 years BP. Rapid early Holocene land emergence was replaced by a slight transgression in the late Holocene.During the Holocene, summer solar ... : Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150 ...