Glacial History of the Taymyr Peninsula and the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Arctic Russia

Möller, Per; Hjort, Christian; Alexanderson, Helena; Sallaba, Florian

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“…Möller et al . ). In such environments basal sliding is facilitated either by wet soils of subglacial taliks or by friction heat released at the interface of ice and hard bedrock.…”

Section: Size and Modus Operandi Of Former Glaciersmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Ice‐retreat morainic loops are also observed on the eastern piedmont of the Polar Urals and in the Taimyr Peninsula, especially on the southern slope of the Byrranga Mountains (Kind & Leonov ; Möller et al . ). In these cases, glacier ice, descending over the hard slippery bedrock and releasing friction heat, accelerated basal sliding and formed a lobate pattern of retreating ice margins.…”

Section: Size and Modus Operandi Of Former Glaciersmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…; Möller et al . , ). This wide range of OSL ages does not necessarily mean an equally long time period for the ice advance and retreat of the Late Pleistocene glacial maximum.…”

Section: An Updated Glacial Chronologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…, ; Möller et al . ), the age of the second Weichselian ice advance c . 60–50 ka BP suggested by Svendsen et al .…”

Section: An Updated Glacial Chronologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pleistocene glaciations of northern Russia – a modern view

Astakhov

2012

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The size, age and dynamics of Pleistocene glaciers, especially ice sheets that periodically covered the northern seaboard of Eurasia, are crucial for understanding the evolution of arctic climates, sea-level changes, the biota and tectonism. General ideas on the glacial history of the vast areas of northern Russia between 48°and 148°E, beyond the limits of the Fennoscandian glaciation, have considerably changed during the last two decades. The change towards modern views may even be considered as a paradigm shift from the conventional wisdom of the previous half-century. The transformation of the main landmarks of late Quaternary glacial history started in the 1970s and accelerated after 1993 as a result of international collaboration in the Russian Arctic. A wealth of new sedimentological, geomorphic and stratigraphic data has recently accumulated for the sedimentary record of the last 200 ka. This information, together with data collected from native geological surveys, has been synthesized in the form of digital maps of ice limits based on key stratigraphic sites. The results have been published as contributions to the international programs QUEEN and APEX and also as parts of global compilations. These publications give general overviews of the Eurasian glacial history, but some important modern data are reported only in the Russian literature and therefore are hardly known to the international community. In this paper I will first consider the background material on the non-Scandinavian glaciations and then follow this with a review of the modern results obtained in the course of international cooperation. The outcome is inevitably influenced (or biased) by my long-term experience in studying the Pleistocene of northern Russia. I will not discuss here the extreme northeast of Siberia (western Beringia), as this is a distinct topic partly overviewed in recent publications.

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“…Möller et al . ). In such environments basal sliding is facilitated either by wet soils of subglacial taliks or by friction heat released at the interface of ice and hard bedrock.…”

Section: Size and Modus Operandi Of Former Glaciersmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Size and Modus Operandi Of Former Glaciersmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…; Möller et al . , ). This wide range of OSL ages does not necessarily mean an equally long time period for the ice advance and retreat of the Late Pleistocene glacial maximum.…”

Section: An Updated Glacial Chronologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…, ; Möller et al . ), the age of the second Weichselian ice advance c . 60–50 ka BP suggested by Svendsen et al .…”

Section: An Updated Glacial Chronologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pleistocene glaciations of northern Russia – a modern view

Astakhov

2012

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“…1), five samples in total, for their macrofossil content (Table 4). The samples were wet-sieved (mesh !0.1 mm) [3], but drawn from Landsat image interpretation by M€ oller et al [4] : U ¼ Urdakh, Sa ¼ Sampesa, K ¼ Severokokorsky, J ¼ Jangoda, S ¼ Syntabul, M ¼ Mokoritto, UT ¼ Upper Taimyra and B ¼ Baikuronyora ice marginal zones (IMZ). NTZ and the residue left on the sieves was analysed using a Leica Wild dissecting microscope (analysed at Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark (macrofossils)).…”

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Glacial history and palaeo-environmental change of southern Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia, during the Middle and Late Pleistocene

Möller

Benediktsson

Anjar

et al. 2019

Earth-Science Reviews

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This Data in Brief paper contains data (including images) from Quaternary sedimentary successions investigated along the Bol'shaya Balakhnya River and the LuktakheUpper TaimyraeLogata river system on southern Taimyr Peninsula, NW Siberia (Russia). Marine foraminifera and mollusc fauna composition, extracted from sediment samples, is presented. The chronology (time of deposition) of the sediment successions is reconstructed from three dating methods; (i) radiocarbon dating of organic detritus (from lacustrine/fluvial sediment) and molluscs (marine sediment) as finite ages (usually <42 000 years) or as non-finite ages (>42 000e48 000 years) on samples/sediments beyond the radiocarbon

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Climate and environmental history at Lake Levinson‐Lessing, Taymyr Peninsula, during the last 62 kyr

Lenz

Andreev

Scheidt

et al. 2021

J Quaternary Science

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The 45.95 m‐long sediment succession shown in core Co1401 from Lake Levinson‐Lessing allows the reconstruction of the largely unexplored environmental and climatic history of the Taymyr Peninsula of the past 62 kyr. The core was analysed with a multidisciplinary approach including lithological, granulometric, geochemical and pollen analyses. The proxy data indicate a relatively stable, herb‐dominated environment with only subtle changes between a cold/wet late Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4 and early MIS 3, mild/dry middle and late MIS 3 and a cold/dry MIS 2. The absence of pronounced climate fluctuations demonstrates that the Lake Levinson‐Lessing catchment was not covered by an ice sheet during this period. Changes in precipitation were likely caused by waxing and waning of the large Eurasian ice sheets outside of the Taymyr Peninsula, which changed the eastward moisture transport and atmospheric circulation patterns. MIS 1 at Lake Levinson‐Lessing was associated with overall warmer and wetter conditions and short‐term climate fluctuations during the Bølling–Allerød warming, Younger Dryas cooling and Preboreal transition, which indicates the influence of North Atlantic air masses.

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Glacial History of the Taymyr Peninsula and the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Arctic Russia

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Pleistocene glaciations of northern Russia – a modern view

Pleistocene glaciations of northern Russia – a modern view

Glacial history and palaeo-environmental change of southern Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia, during the Middle and Late Pleistocene

Climate and environmental history at Lake Levinson‐Lessing, Taymyr Peninsula, during the last 62 kyr

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