Luminescence chronology of non-glacial sediments in Changeable Lake, Russian High Arctic, and implications for limited Eurasian ice-sheet extent during the LGM

Berger, Glenn W. and Melles, Martin and Banerjee, Debabrata and Murray, Andrew S. and Raab, Alexandra (2004) Luminescence chronology of non-glacial sediments in Changeable Lake, Russian High Arctic, and implications for limited Eurasian ice-sheet extent during the LGM. JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE, 19 (5). pp. 513-523. ISSN 0267-8179,

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Abstract

A 10.5 m core from Changeable Lake in the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago just north of the Taymyr Peninsula intersects ca. 30 cm of diamicton at its base, interpreted as a basal till. Because the upper 10.13 m of this core consists of non-glacial sediments, a maximum numeric age for these non-glacial sediments would provide a clear lower limit to the timing of the last glaciation in the area of Changeable Lake. Radiocarbon (C-14) dating of several materials from this core yielded widely scattered results. Consequently we applied photonic dating to sediments above the diamicton. The experimental single-aliquot-regenerative (SAR) dose fine-grain method was applied to two samples, using the 'double SAR' approach. With one exception, these fine-grain SAR results and the results of application of the SAR method to sand-sized quartz grains from two samples, at ca. 9.95 m and ca. 10.05 m depth, are discrepant with age estimates from the multi-aliquot infrared-photon-stimulated luminescence (IR-PSL) method applied to fine grains. Multi-aliquot IR-PSL dating of 10 samples produces ages increasing monotonically from ca. 4 ka at 2 m to 53 +/- 4 ka at 9.97 m. These self-consistent multi-aliquot IR-PSL ages, along with limiting C-14 ages of >47 ka at ca. 10 m, provide direct evidence that glacial ice did not advance over this lake basin during the Last Glacial Maximum, and thus delimit the northeastern margin of the Barents-Kara Sea ice-sheet to somewhere west of this archipelago. The last regional glaciation probably occurred during marine isotope stage (MIS) 4 or earlier. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: REGENERATIVE-DOSE PROTOCOL; SINGLE-ALIQUOT; LATE PLEISTOCENE; NORTHERN RUSSIA; LAST GLACIATION; MARGINAL ZONE; CHINESE LOESS; FINE-GRAINS; MAXIMUM; SIBERIA; luminescence; geochronology; Russian Arctic; lake sediments; ice sheets; Quaternary
Subjects: 900 History & geography > 900 Geography & history
Divisions: Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities > Institut für Geographie
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 12 Jul 2021 08:30
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2021 08:30
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/37504

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