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PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 160-174Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1769
Keywords
arctic paleolimnology; holocene sediment core; shoreline thermoerosion; X-Ray fluorescence (XRF); grain-size variability
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- Helmholtz Graduate School for Polar and Marine Research (POLMAR) Graduate School
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The relationships between thermokarst activity, limnogeological processes and climate change in the Siberian Arctic are not well understood. The objective of this paper is to identify the factors controlling the patterns of deposition, using grain size distribution, organic content, elemental composition and mineralogical composition of a 137-cm long sediment core with a maximum age of similar to 10.9 cal. kyr BP from Lake El'gene-Kyuele in the tundra of northeastern Siberia. Eight fine sand layers are attributed to depositional events associated with thaw slump activity acting upon orthogonally oriented patterns of ice-wedge networks in the ice-rich permafrost on the NW margin of the lake catchment. Sr/Rb ratios, which correspond to the total feldspar and illite content, serve as high-resolution grain size proxies. The Br content relates to the total organic carbon content, and the Fe/Mn ratio reflects the degree of oxidisation. Our results indicate a relationship between repeated phases of fine sand input and retrogressive thaw slumping dependent on hydroclimate variability and orthogonally oriented ice-wedge networks within the catchment. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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