First lake record of Holocene climate and vegetation change of the Northern Kuril Islands |
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Authors: | A V Lozhkin P M Anderson N A Goryachev P S Minyuk A Yu Pakhomov T B Solomatkina M V Cherepanova |
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Institution: | (1) Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan |
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Abstract: | Investigation of Pernatoe Lake sediments in the south of Paramushir Island has enabled us to obtain the first continuous pollen
record of climate and vegetation changes in the north of the Kurile archipelago during the Holocene. Series of radiocarbon
datings of between 10 000 ± 40 and 2180 ± 40 years ago are evidence that the beginning of sediments accumulation, found after
borehole development, is related to the Early Holocene. Diatom analysis has shown several stages in the lake development:
raised bog on the border of the Pleistocene and Holocene, lagoon formation resulting from the sea level rise over 9–6 ky,
and freshwater lake formation 6 ky and up to the present. Climate warming during the period attributed to the boreal and Atlantic
periods of the Holocene is reflected by the dominance of Pinus pumila and Alnus serrulata assemblages in vegetation cover. Wide dune fields were formed in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific shores of Paramushir
Island 5–4 ky. Strengthening of atmogenic processes is related to cooling of the climate and drying of some areas of the underwater
slope. |
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