Chronological and biomarker reconstructed mean summer air temperatures (MSAT) for the past 6,000 years from lake sediments on Annenkov Island (near South Georgia) and the South Shetland Islands

• Main Authors: Roberts, Stephen, Pearson, Emma, Foster, Louise, Juggins, Steven
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation 2019
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","ATMOSPHERE","ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE","SURFACE TEMPERATURE","AIR TEMPERATURE"; "EARTH SCIENCE","PALEOCLIMATE","OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS","SEDIMENTS"; "EARTH SCIENCE","PALEOCLIMATE","PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS","AIR TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION"; Antarctic; GDGT; Palaeoclimate; Southern Hemisphere; organic geochemistry; palaeolimnology; temperature reconstruction; Annenkov Island; Antarctic Peninsula; Appleby; Argentino; Fan Lake; King George Island; Oldfield; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Yanou Lake; Alfred Wegener Institute; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/df50e30a-0672-461a-928e-aafafb45fd55; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01244

The dataset contains chronological and biomarker compound and brGDGT (branched Glyceryl Dialkyl Glyceryl Tetraether) mean summer temperature (MSAT) data for the last c. 6,000 years from sediments extracted from Fan Lake on Annenkov Island (near South Georgia) and Yanou Lake, King George Island, Sout...