ROMAN, Matěj, Anna PÍŠKOVÁ, David C.W. SANDERSON, Alan J CRESSWELL, Marie BULÍNOVÁ, Matěj POKORNÝ, Jan KAVAN, Stephen James Arthur JENNINGS, Juan M. LIRIO, Linda NEDBALOVÁ, Veronika SACHEROVÁ, Kateřina KOPALOVÁ, Neil F. GLASSER and Daniel NÝVLT. The Late Holocene deglaciation of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula: OSL and 14C-dated multi-proxy sedimentary record from Monolith Lake. Quaternary Science Reviews. Elsevier Ltd, 2024, vol. 333, June 2024, p. 1-17. ISSN 0277-3791. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108693.
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Original name The Late Holocene deglaciation of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula: OSL and 14C-dated multi-proxy sedimentary record from Monolith Lake
Authors ROMAN, Matěj (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Anna PÍŠKOVÁ, David C.W. SANDERSON, Alan J CRESSWELL, Marie BULÍNOVÁ, Matěj POKORNÝ, Jan KAVAN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Stephen James Arthur JENNINGS (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, belonging to the institution), Juan M. LIRIO, Linda NEDBALOVÁ, Veronika SACHEROVÁ, Kateřina KOPALOVÁ, Neil F. GLASSER and Daniel NÝVLT (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier Ltd, 2024, 0277-3791.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.000 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108693
UT WoS 001239859800001
Keywords in English Antarctica; Palaeolimnology; Lake sediments; Radiocarbon; OSL dating; Deglaciation; Diatoms; Faunal subfossils; Holocene; Neoglacial
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Abstract
Lentic waterbodies provide terrestrial sedimentary archives of palaeoenvironmental change in deglaciated areas of the Antarctic. Knowledge of the long-term evolution of Antarctic palaeoenvironments affords important context to the current marked impacts of climate change in the Polar regions. Here, we present a comprehensively dated, multi-proxy sedimentary record from Monolith Lake, a distal proglacial lake in one of the largest ice-free areas of the Antarctic Peninsula region. Of the two defined sedimentary units in the cores studied, the lower Unit 1 exhibits a homogeneous composition and unvarying proxy data profiles, suggesting rapid clastic deposition under uniform, ice-proximal conditions with a sedimentation rate of ∼1 mm yr−1. 14C and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating bracket the deposition interval to 1.5–2.5 ka BP, with the older age being more probable when compared to independent dating of the local deglaciation. The uppermost 11 cm of the record spans the last ∼2.2 ka BP (maximum age), suggesting a markedly decreased sedimentation rate of ∼0.05 mm yr−1 within Unit 2. Whereas Unit 1 shows only scarce evidence of biological activity, Unit 2 provides an uninterrupted record of diatoms (with 29 species recorded) and faunal subfossils, including the fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini. Concentrations of organically-derived elements, as well as diatoms and faunal remains, are consistent, implying a gradual increase in lake productivity. These results provide an example of long-term Antarctic ‘greening’ (i.e. increasing organic productivity in terrestrial habitats) from a palaeolimnological perspective. The boundary between Units 1 and 2, therefore, marks the timing of local deglaciation at the final stages of a period of negative glacier mass balance, i.e. the Mid-Late Holocene Hypsithermal. Subsequent Neoglacial cooling is evidenced by the abated influence of glacial meltwater streams and turbidity decline linked to reduced glacier runoff, although most proxy responses mirror the natural proglacial lake ontogeny.
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EF16_013/0001708, research and development projectName: ECOPOLARIS - Změny ve struktuře a funkci součástí terestrických polárních ekosystémů (CzechPolar2)
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GN22-20621O, research and development projectName: Souvislost kvartérních a současných geomorfologických procesů v geosystémech přiléhajících k polárním ledovcům a ledovcovým štítům
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Outgoing
VAN 2021, interní kód MUName: Český antarktický výzkumný program 2021 (Acronym: CARP 2021)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
VAN 2022, interní kód MUName: Český antarktický výzkumný program 2022 (Acronym: CARP 2022)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Czech Antarctic Research Programme 2022, Antarctic research
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