Overview and significance of a 250 ka paleoclimate record from El’gygytgyn Crater Lake, NE Russia

• Main Authors: Brigham_Grette, Julie, Melles, Martin, Minyuk, Pavel
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SelectedWorks 2006
• Subjects: Paleoclimate; Paleolimnology; Arctic; Beringia; Chukotka; El’gygytgyn; Earth Sciences; Crater Lake; Greenland; Climate change; Ice Sheet; Magnetic susceptibility; North Atlantic; Siberia
• Online Access: https://works.bepress.com/julie_brigham_grette/4

Abstract Sediment piston cores from Lake El’gygytgyn (67N, 172E), a 3.6 million year old meteorite impact crater in northeastern Siberia, have been analyzed to extract a multi-proxy millennial- scale climate record extending to nearly 250 ka, with distinct fluctuations in sedimentological, physical,...