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Wetterich, Sebastian; Meyer, Hanno; Nazarova, Larisa B; Palagushkina, Olga V; Savelieva, Larissa A; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Syrykh, Luidmila S (2017): Sediment, ground ice and micropaleontological data from the pingo exposure 'Shirokovsky Kholm' (Kolyma Lowland, NE Siberia) sampled in 2012 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884369, Supplement to: Wetterich, Sebastian; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Nazarova, Larisa B; Palagushkina, Olga V; Bobrov, Anatoly A; Pogosyan, Lilith; Savelieva, Larissa A; Syrykh, Luidmila S; Matthes, Heidrun; Fritz, Michael; Günther, Frank; Opel, Thomas; Meyer, Hanno (2018): Holocene thermokarst and pingo development in the Kolyma Lowland (NE Siberia). Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 29(3), 182-198, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1979

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Abstract:
Ground ice and sedimentary records of a pingo exposure reveal insights into Holocene permafrost, landscape and climate dynamics. Early to mid‐Holocene thermokarst lake deposits contain rich floral and faunal paleoassemblages, which indicate lake shrinkage and decreasing summer temperatures (chironomid‐based TJuly) from 10.5 to 3.5 cal kyr BP with the warmest period between 10.5 and 8 cal kyr BP. Talik refreezing and pingo growth started about 3.5 cal kyr BP after disappearance of the lake. The isotopic composition of the pingo ice (δ18O − 17.1 ± 0.6‰, δD −144.5 ± 3.4‰, slope 5.85, deuterium excess −7.7± 1.5‰) point to the initial stage of closed‐system freezing captured in the record. A differing isotopic composition within the massive ice body was found (δ18O − 21.3 ± 1.4‰, δD −165 ± 11.5‰, slope 8.13, deuterium excess 4.9± 3.2‰), probably related to the infill of dilation cracks by surface water with quasi‐meteoric signature. Currently inactive syngenetic ice wedges formed in the thermokarst basin after lake drainage. The pingo preserves traces of permafrost response to climate variations in terms of ground‐ice degradation (thermokarst) during the early and mid‐Holocene, and aggradation (wedge‐ice and pingo‐ice growth) during the late Holocene.
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Permafrost Research (AWI_Perma)
Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI (AWI_PerDyn)
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems @ AWI (AWI_Envi)
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Latitude: 69.038360 * Longitude: 161.006420
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Wetterich, S; Nazarova, LB; Palagushkina, OV et al. (2017): Chironomids in sediment samples from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-1908-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884364
  2. Wetterich, S; Nazarova, LB; Palagushkina, OV et al. (2017): Diatoms in sediment samples from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-1908-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884365
  3. Wetterich, S; Meyer, H; Schirrmeister, L (2017): Ground-ice stable isotope data from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-1908-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884360
  4. Wetterich, S; Nazarova, LB; Palagushkina, OV et al. (2017): Pollen distribution in samples from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-1908-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884363
  5. Wetterich, S; Schirrmeister, L (2017): Sediment data from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-1908-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884357
  6. Wetterich, S; Nazarova, LB; Palagushkina, OV et al. (2017): Tectaceans in sediment samples from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-1908-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884366
  7. Wetterich, S; Meyer, H; Schirrmeister, L (2017): Ground-ice stable isotope data from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-2008-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884361
  8. Wetterich, S; Schirrmeister, L (2017): Sediment data from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-2008-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884358
  9. Wetterich, S; Meyer, H; Schirrmeister, L (2017): Ground-ice stable isotope data from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-2208-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884362
  10. Wetterich, S; Schirrmeister, L (2017): Sediment data from the pingo exposure AWI_12P-2208-A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884359
  11. Wetterich, S; Nazarova, LB; Palagushkina, OV et al. (2017): Diatoms in sediment core AWI_80-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884368