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Development of Surficial Deposits on Belyi Island (Kara Sea) during the Last 40,000 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2018

A Yurtaev*
Affiliation:
Tyumen State University, Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen, Russia
A Alexandrovskiy
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Soil Geography & Evolution, Moscow, Russia
V Skripkin
Affiliation:
Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of NAS and MES of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
E Zazovskaya
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Soil Geography & Evolution, Moscow, Russia
A Dolgikh
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Soil Geography & Evolution, Moscow, Russia The People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Department of Science and Innovation Policy, Moscow, Russia
*
*Corresponding author. Email: yurtaevgeo@yandex.ru.

Abstract

A series of radiocarbon (14C) dates of peat and other materials, containing organic matter, were obtained from Belyi Island. We have identified a large group of dates associates with MIS 1, as well as a significant group of dates associated with the Kargin (MIS 3) period (40–31 ka cal BP). A large number of dates from the Late Glacial period and from the Early Holocene (MIS 1—ca. 14–9 ka cal BP) point to this time interval being associated with warm climate conditions (the Holocene thermal maximum). The climate cooled off significantly during the Middle and Late Holocene, and the intensity of peat accumulation declined. The dates from the MIS 2 period are missing, due to the conditions of this period being extremely unfavorable for the accumulation of peat, as well as of other materials suitable for 14C dating.

Type
Soil
Copyright
© 2018 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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Footnotes

Selected Papers from the 2nd Radiocarbon in the Environment Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, 3–7 July 2017

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