Water chemistry and sediment age of lake Terrasovoje, Amery Oasis, East Antarctica ...

• Main Authors: Wagner, Bernd, Cremer, Holger, Hultzsch, Nadja, Gore, Damian B, Melles, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158; Amery; Antarctic; Arctic; East Antarctica; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.847398; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.847398

The late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of the southern Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, has been reconstructed using diatom assemblages from two long, well-dated sediment cores taken in two marine bays. The diatom assemblage of the lowest sediment layers suggests a warm climate with mostl...