Fletcher, Michael-Shawn; Romano, Anthony; O'Shea, Caitlin (2026): Macroscopic charcoal counts and accumulation rates from a sediment core at Purghagoolah (Lake Elusive), southeastern Australia, last ~1000 years [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995706 (DOI registration in progress), In: Fletcher, Michael-Shawn; Romano, Anthony (2026): Multiproxy palaeoecological record from Purghagoolah (Lake Elusive), Gippsland, southeastern Australia: pollen, macroscopic charcoal, FTIR charcoal temperature, magnetic susceptibility and radiocarbon [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995756 (DOI registration in progress)
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Published: 2026-07-17
Abstract:
This table reports macroscopic charcoal abundance from a 1 m sediment core at Purghagoolah (Lake Elusive), a lake of approximately 40 ha and 21 m depth in Croajingolong National Park, Gippsland, southeastern Australia, on Gunaikurnai Country (37°44'50"S, 149°27'9"E; decimal -37.747222, 149.452500, WGS84; 50 m a.s.l.), cored on 9 February 2021 with a Universal Corer (Aquatic Instruments), subsampled at 0.5 cm. Sediment subsamples were digested in hydrogen peroxide, sieved at 125 and 250 µm, and charcoal particles counted under a stereomicroscope. Counts were converted to charcoal accumulation rates (particles per square centimetre per year) using the sediment accumulation rate from the lead-210 and radiocarbon age-depth model. Values are reported by depth and modelled age (approximately 844 to 2021 CE) and are used as a proxy for local biomass burning.
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Related to:
Fletcher, Michael-Shawn; et al. (submitted): Australia's current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change. Nature
Coverage:
Latitude: -37.747222 * Longitude: 149.452500
Date/Time Start: 2021-02-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2021-02-09T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.005 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.965 m
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | Fletcher, Michael-Shawn | Geocode | |
| 2 | AGE | Age | ka BP | Fletcher, Michael-Shawn | Geocode | |
| 3 | Age | Age | a AD/CE | Fletcher, Michael-Shawn | ||
| 4 | Charcoal | Charcoal | # | Fletcher, Michael-Shawn | Stereomicroscope | |
| 5 | Accumulation rate, charcoal | Acc rate char | #/cm2/a | Fletcher, Michael-Shawn | see abstract |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
579 data points