Abstract
A 318-metre-long sedimentary profile drilled by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) at Site 5011-1 in Lake El’gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic, has been analysed for its sedimentologic response to global climate modes by chronostratigraphic methods. The 12 km wide lake is sited off-centre in an 18 km large crater that was created by the impact of a meteorite 3.58 Ma ago. Since then sediments have been continuously deposited. For establishing their chronology, major reversals of the earth’s magnetic field provided initial tie points for the age model, confirming that the impact occurred in the earliest geomagnetic Gauss chron. Various stratigraphic parameters, reflecting redox conditions at the lake floor and climatic conditions in the catchment were tuned synchronously to Northern Hemisphere insolation variations and the marine oxygen isotope stack, respectively. Thus, a robust age model comprising more than 600 tie points could be defined. It could be shown that deposition of sediments in Lake El’gygytgyn occurred in concert with global climatic cycles. The upper ∼ 160 m of sediments represent the past 3.3 Ma, equivalent to sedimentation rates of 4 to 5 cm ka−1, whereas the lower 160 m represent just the first 0.3 Ma after the impact, equivalent to sedimentation rates in the order of 45 cm ka−1. This study also provides orbitally tuned ages for a total of 8 tephras deposited in Lake El’gygytgyn.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2413-2432 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Climate of the Past |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements. Funding for this research was provided by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (GFZ), the Russian Academy of Sciences Far East Branch (RAS FEB), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF). The Russian GLAD 800 drilling system was developed and operated by DOSECC Inc., the down hole logging was performed by the ICDP-OSG, and LacCore, at the University of Minnesota, handled core curation. We like to thank all the participants of the expedition to Lake El’gygytgyn from January to May 2009 for their engagement during recovery of the ICDP Site 5011-1 cores. Numerous students helped during laboratory work. Wavelet analyses were performed using the PAST software package, Vers. 2.17, provided by Øyvind Hammer, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/index.html). This study was partly financed by BMBF grant no. 03G0642C – “Geochronology of the sediments in the El’gygytgyn crater”.
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