Late Glacial to Holocene paleoenvironmental change on the northwestern Pacific seaboard, Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Pendea, I. F., Ponomareva, V., Bourgeois, J., Zubrow, E. B. W., Portnyagin, Maxim, Ponkratova, I., Harmsen, H., Korosec, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Greenland; Kamchatka Peninsula; Krutoberegovo; Pacific; Ust’-Kamchatsk; Kamchatka; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/35353/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/35353/1/portnyagin.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.035

We used a new sedimentary record from a small kettle wetland to reconstruct the Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Krutoberegovo-Ust Kamchatsk region in eastern Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia). Pollen and charcoal data suggest that the Late Glacial landscape was dominated by a...