Data set on sedimentology, palaeoecology and chronology of middle to late pleistocene deposits on the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia

This Data in Brief paper contains data (including images) from Quaternary sedimentary successions investigated along the Bol'shaya Balakhnya River and the Luktakh–Upper Taimyra–Logata river system on southern Taimyr Peninsula, NW Siberia (Russia). Marine foraminifera and mollusc fauna compositi...

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Published in:Data in Brief
Main Authors: Möller, Per, Benediktsson, Ívar Örn, Anjar, Johanna, Bennike, Ole, Bernhardson, Martin, Funder, Svend, Håkansson, Lena M., Lemdahl, Geoffrey, Licciardi, Joseph M., Murray, Andrew S., Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019
Subjects:
Earth and Planetary Science
Arctic
Logata
Luktakh
Foraminifera*
Taimyr
Siberia
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669348/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31388521
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104267
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Summary:This Data in Brief paper contains data (including images) from Quaternary sedimentary successions investigated along the Bol'shaya Balakhnya River and the Luktakh–Upper Taimyra–Logata river system on southern Taimyr Peninsula, NW Siberia (Russia). Marine foraminifera and mollusc fauna composition, extracted from sediment samples, is presented. The chronology (time of deposition) of the sediment successions is reconstructed from three dating methods; (i) radiocarbon dating of organic detritus (from lacustrine/fluvial sediment) and molluscs (marine sediment) as finite ages (usually <42 000 years) or as non-finite ages (>42 000–48 000 years) on samples/sediments beyond the radiocarbon dating limit; (ii) Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating on marine molluscs (up to ages >400 000 years); (iii) Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating, usually effective up to 100–150 0000 years. Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide (TCN) exposure dating has been applied to boulders resting on top of moraine ridges (Ice Marginal Zones). See (Möller et al., 2019) (doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.004) for interpretation and discussion of all data.

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