Holocene depositional environments and surface-level changes at Lake Fryxell, Antarctica

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Whittaker, T. E., Hall, B. L., Hendy, Chris H., Spaulding, S. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sage 2008
• Subjects: Dry Valleys; depositional environments; lake-level variations; sediment cores; carbonates; diatoms; Lake Fryxell; Antarctica; Fryxell; Lake Vanda; Vanda; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8298; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683608091797

We report on Holocene surface-level variations of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica, as determined from multi-proxy analyses of 18 sediment cores. During this time accumulating sediments were predominantly aeolian sand with algal and carbonate laminae. Based on stratigraphy, mineralogy and diatom assemblages...