Radiocarbon dates, porewater hydrochemistry, calcareous microfossils and pollen data from a lake sediment core (PG1967) from Herschel Island (Yukon, Canada)

• Main Authors: Fritz, Michael, Unkel, Ingmar, Lenz, Josefine, Gajewski, Konrad, Frenzel, Peter, Paquette, Nathalie, Lantuit, Hugues, Körte, Lisa, Wetterich, Sebastian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: AWI Arctic Land Expedition; CA-Land_2009_YukonLakes; PCUWI; PG1967; Piston corer; UWITEC; Yukon_Lakes_2009; Arctic; Yukon; Canada; Herschel Island; Foraminifera*; Herschel; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.886875; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.886875

Thermokarst lakes cover nearly one fourth of ice-rich permafrost lowlands in the Arctic. Sediments from an athalassic subsaline thermokarst lake on Herschel Island (69°36'N; 139°04'W, Canadian Arctic) were used to understand regional changes in climate and in sediment transport, hydrology,...