Raposeiro, Pedro Miguel; Ritter, Catarina; Abbott, Mark; Hernández, Armand; Pimentel, Adriano; Płóciennik, Mateusz; Violeta, Berlajolli; Kotrys, Bartosz; Pontevedra Pombal, Xabier; Souto, Martin; Giralt, Santiago; Gonçalves, Vítor: Chironomid determination of sediment core from Lake Prata (São Miguel, Azores, Portugal) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.971355 (dataset in review)
Abstract:
The location of the Azores Archipelago makes this group of islands an excellent setting for investigating past long-term temperature and precipitation changes in the central North Atlantic region. Lake Prata (37º48'23''N, 25°44'12''W; 520 m a.s.l.) is found on the island of São Miguel, more precisely in the western sector of the Picos fissure system, 5 km SE of the Sete Cidades caldera, and it fills the crater of a scoria cone older than 5000 years. The lake is currently a Sphagnum/Eleocaris-dominated peatland. In January 2021, a 4.5-m long core was collected from Lake Prata using a Russian corer with a 50 cm long and 7 cm diameter sampler. The core was packed in PVC trays and covered in plastic film before being transported to the CIBIO's paleolimnology laboratory (University of Azores). The core was dated using ¹⁴C and produced a multi-proxy dataset of geochemical and biological analyses that we used to uncover paleoenvironmental changes on Lake Prata in the last ca. 1200 years.
Related to:
Raposeiro, Pedro Miguel; Ritter, Catarina; Abbott, Mark; Hernández, Armand; Pimentel, Adriano; Lasher, Everett; Płóciennik, Mateusz; Violeta, Berlajolli; Kotrys, Bartosz; Pombal, Xabier Pontevedra; Souto, Martin; Giralt, Santiago; Gonçalves, Vítor (2024): Late Holocene climate dynamics in the Azores archipelago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 331, 108617, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108617
Coverage:
Latitude: 37.806400 * Longitude: -25.736700
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 1.51 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 4.19 m
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
1344 data points