Sediment and ice characteristics at a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow
Barrow, the northernmost point in Alaska, is one of the most intensively studied areas in the Arctic. However, paleoenvironmental evidence is limited for northern Alaska for the Lateglacial-Holocene transition. For a regional paleoenvironmental reconstruction, we investigated a permafrost ice-wedge...
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Barrow, the northernmost point in Alaska, is one of the most intensively studied areas in the Arctic. However, paleoenvironmental evidence is limited for northern Alaska for the Lateglacial-Holocene transition. For a regional paleoenvironmental reconstruction, we investigated a permafrost ice-wedge tunnel near Barrow, Alaska. The studied site was first excavated in the early 1960s and intercepts a buried ice-wedge system at 3-6 m depth below the surface. A multi-methodological approach was applied to this buried ice-wedge system and the enclosing sediments, which in their combination, give new insight into the Late Quaternary environmental and climate history. Results of geochronological, sedimentological, cryolithological, paleoecological, isotope geochemical and microbiological studies reflect different stages of mid to late Wisconsin (MW to LW), Allerod (AD), Younger Dryas (YD), Preboreal (PB), and Late Holocene paleoenvironmental evolution. The LW age of the site is indicated by AMS dates in the surrounding sediments of 21.7 kyr BP at the lateral contact of the ice-wedge system as well as 39.5 kyr BP below the ice-wedge system. It is only recently that in this region, stable isotope techniques have been employed, i.e. to characterize different types of ground ice. The stable isotope record (oxygen: d18O; hydrogen: dD) of two intersecting ice wedges suggests different phases of the northern Alaskan climate history from AD to PB, with radiocarbon dates from 12.4 to 9.9 kyr BP (ranging from 14.8 to 10.6 kyr cal BP). Stable isotope geochemistry of ice wedges reveals winter temperature variations of the Lateglacial-Holocene transition including a prominent YD cold period, clearly separated from the warmer AD and PB phases. YD is only weakly developed in summer temperature indicators (such as pollen) for the northern Alaska area, and by consequence, the YD cold stadial was here especially related to the winter season. This highlights that the combination of winter and summer indicators comprehensively describes ... |
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Sediment and ice characteristics at a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow |
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Sediment and ice characteristics at a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow |
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Sediment and ice characteristics at a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow |
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Sediment and ice characteristics at a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow |
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Supplement to: Meyer, Hanno; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Andreev, Andrei A; Wagner, Dirk; Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang; Yoshikawa, Kenji; Bobrov, Anatoly A; Wetterich, Sebastian; Opel, Thomas; Kandiano, Evgenia S; Brown, Jerry (2010): Lateglacial and Holocene isotopic and environmental history of northern coastal Alaska – Results from a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(27-28), 3720-3735, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.005 |
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ftpangaea:oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.816847 2023-05-15T15:04:52+02:00 Sediment and ice characteristics at a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow Meyer, Hanno Schirrmeister, Lutz Andreev, Andrei A Wagner, Dirk Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang Yoshikawa, Kenji Bobrov, Anatoly A Wetterich, Sebastian Opel, Thomas Kandiano, Evgenia S Brown, Jerry MEDIAN LATITUDE: 71.304500 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -156.684000 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 71.295000 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -156.724000 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 71.314000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -156.644000 * DATE/TIME START: 2004-04-20T00:00:00 * DATE/TIME END: 2006-05-07T00:00:00 2010-07-18 application/zip, 6 datasets https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.816847 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.816847 en eng PANGAEA https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.816847 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.816847 CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Supplement to: Meyer, Hanno; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Andreev, Andrei A; Wagner, Dirk; Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang; Yoshikawa, Kenji; Bobrov, Anatoly A; Wetterich, Sebastian; Opel, Thomas; Kandiano, Evgenia S; Brown, Jerry (2010): Lateglacial and Holocene isotopic and environmental history of northern coastal Alaska – Results from a buried ice-wedge system at Barrow. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(27-28), 3720-3735, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.005 AK-Land_2004_Fairbanks_Barrow AK-Land_2004_Fairbanks_Barrow_all AK-Land_2006_Fairbanks_Barrow AK-Land_2006_Fairbanks_Barrow_all Alaska 2004 Alaska 2006 AWI AWI Arctic Land Expedition Barrow_transect Barrow Alaska USA International Polar Year (2007-2008) IPY MON Monitoring MULT Multiple investigations Dataset 2010 ftpangaea https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.816847 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.005 2023-01-20T07:33:04Z Barrow, the northernmost point in Alaska, is one of the most intensively studied areas in the Arctic. However, paleoenvironmental evidence is limited for northern Alaska for the Lateglacial-Holocene transition. For a regional paleoenvironmental reconstruction, we investigated a permafrost ice-wedge tunnel near Barrow, Alaska. The studied site was first excavated in the early 1960s and intercepts a buried ice-wedge system at 3-6 m depth below the surface. A multi-methodological approach was applied to this buried ice-wedge system and the enclosing sediments, which in their combination, give new insight into the Late Quaternary environmental and climate history. Results of geochronological, sedimentological, cryolithological, paleoecological, isotope geochemical and microbiological studies reflect different stages of mid to late Wisconsin (MW to LW), Allerod (AD), Younger Dryas (YD), Preboreal (PB), and Late Holocene paleoenvironmental evolution. The LW age of the site is indicated by AMS dates in the surrounding sediments of 21.7 kyr BP at the lateral contact of the ice-wedge system as well as 39.5 kyr BP below the ice-wedge system. It is only recently that in this region, stable isotope techniques have been employed, i.e. to characterize different types of ground ice. The stable isotope record (oxygen: d18O; hydrogen: dD) of two intersecting ice wedges suggests different phases of the northern Alaskan climate history from AD to PB, with radiocarbon dates from 12.4 to 9.9 kyr BP (ranging from 14.8 to 10.6 kyr cal BP). Stable isotope geochemistry of ice wedges reveals winter temperature variations of the Lateglacial-Holocene transition including a prominent YD cold period, clearly separated from the warmer AD and PB phases. YD is only weakly developed in summer temperature indicators (such as pollen) for the northern Alaska area, and by consequence, the YD cold stadial was here especially related to the winter season. This highlights that the combination of winter and summer indicators comprehensively describes ... Dataset Arctic Barrow Ice International Polar Year IPY permafrost wedge* Alaska PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science Arctic ENVELOPE(-156.724000,-156.644000,71.314000,71.295000) |