Table 1. Radiocarbon dated samples from lake basin cores from the Nikel-Kirkenes area

• Main Authors: Corner, Geoffrey D, Yevzerov, Vladimir Y, Kolka, Vasili V, Møller, Jakob J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1999
• Subjects: Age; 14C conventional; 14C milieu/reservoir corrected; dated; dated material; dated standard deviation; maximum/old; minimum/young; Age model in calendar years; Calculated from stable carbon isotopes; Carbon; organic; marine matter; Depth; bottom/max; sediment/rock; top/min; Description; Event label; LakeLoc1; LakeLoc2; LakeLoc3; LakeLoc4; LakeLoc5; LakeLoc6; LakeLoc7; LakeLoc8; Latitude of event; Light Weight Piston Corer; Longitude of event; LWPC; Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North; QUEEN; QUEEN_Exped; Reconstructed; Reservoir effect/correction; Sample code/label; Sea level; mean high tide; δ13C; organic carbon; Eight Lake; Fennoscandian; Kirkenes; Northwest Russia
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.56084; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.56084

The marine-lacustrine transition (isolation contact) in sediment cores from eight lake basins situated 13.5–72 m a.s.l., in the Norwegian-Russian border area north of Nikel, northwest Russia, was identified based on lithological and diatom analysis, radiocarbon dated, and used to construct a relative sea-level (RSL) curve for the Holocene. All the lakes except one (interpreted as having an unconformable slumped transition) show a regressive I-II-III (marine-transitional-lacustrine) facies succession, indicating a postglacial history of continuous emergence. The RSL curve shows rapid emergence between 10 000 and 8000 BP, very slow emergence between 7000 and 5000 BP, increased rate of emergence between 4500 and 4000 BP, and a moderate rate of emergence after 3500 BP. The low rate of emergence around 6000 BP correlates with the Tapes transgression of more coastal regions, but corresponding sea level, at 25–26 ma. present s.l., lies 5–10 m lower than the elevation predicted based on existing isobase maps for the region. The discrepancy suggests a need for further work in order to more rigorously define and map the Tapes transgression and associated shoreline complex in the northern Fennoscandian-Kola region.