A 2000 year varve-based climate record from the central Brooks Range, Alaska

• Main Authors: Bird, Broxton W., Abbott, Mark B., Finney, Bruce P., Kutchko, Barbara
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Brooks Range; Late Holocene climate change; Little Ice Age; Varves; Blue Lake; Climate change; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/30200

Varved minerogenic sediments from glacial-fed Blue Lake, northern Alaska, are used to investigate late Holocene climate variability. Varve-thickness measurements track summer temperature recorded at Atigun Pass, located 41 km east at a similar elevation (r2 = 0.31, P = 0.08). Results indicate that c...