The importance of radiocarbon dates and tephra for developing chronologies of Holocene environmental changes from lake sediments, North Far East
Abstract
One problem with developing continuous chronologies of paleoenvironmental change in northern areas of the Far East using 14C is the low organic content in lake sediments. However, Holocene age-models can be supplemented by widespread tephra deposits reported in the Magadan region. The best documented of these tephras has been correlated to the KO tephra from southern Kamchatka dated to 7600 BP. Though a key chronostratigraphic marker, no detailed compendium of the distribution of this tephra and its associated 14C dates has been available from sites in the northern Far East. We provide such a summary. Known locally as the Elikchan tephra, lake cores indicate an ash fall that extended ~1800 km north of the Kamchatkan caldera with a ~500 km wide trajectory in the Magadan region. Other Holocene tephras preserved in lake sediments have poorer age control and possibly date to ~2500 BP, ~2700 BP and ~6000 BP. These ashes seem to be restricted to coastal or near-coastal sites. Finally, a single record of a ~25,000 BP tephra has also been documented ~100 km to the northeast of Magadan.
- Authors:
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- Far East Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan (Russia). Northeast Interdisciplinary Science Research Inst.
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Earth and Space Sciences and Quaternary Research Center
- Far East Russian Academy of Sciences, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russia). Inst. of Volcanology and Seismology
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1326882
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-684337
Journal ID: ISSN 1819-7140
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Russian Journal of Pacific Geology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1819-7140
- Publisher:
- Springer - Pleiades Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 58 GEOSCIENCES; tephra; chronology; lake sediments; radiocarbon dates; Holocene; Far East of Russia
Citation Formats
Lozhkin, Anatoly V., Brown, Thomas A., Anderson, Patricia M., Glushkova, Olga Yu, and Melekestsev, Ivan V. The importance of radiocarbon dates and tephra for developing chronologies of Holocene environmental changes from lake sediments, North Far East. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1134/S1819714016040047.
Lozhkin, Anatoly V., Brown, Thomas A., Anderson, Patricia M., Glushkova, Olga Yu, & Melekestsev, Ivan V. The importance of radiocarbon dates and tephra for developing chronologies of Holocene environmental changes from lake sediments, North Far East. United States. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714016040047
Lozhkin, Anatoly V., Brown, Thomas A., Anderson, Patricia M., Glushkova, Olga Yu, and Melekestsev, Ivan V. Fri .
"The importance of radiocarbon dates and tephra for developing chronologies of Holocene environmental changes from lake sediments, North Far East". United States. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714016040047. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1326882.
@article{osti_1326882,
title = {The importance of radiocarbon dates and tephra for developing chronologies of Holocene environmental changes from lake sediments, North Far East},
author = {Lozhkin, Anatoly V. and Brown, Thomas A. and Anderson, Patricia M. and Glushkova, Olga Yu and Melekestsev, Ivan V.},
abstractNote = {One problem with developing continuous chronologies of paleoenvironmental change in northern areas of the Far East using 14C is the low organic content in lake sediments. However, Holocene age-models can be supplemented by widespread tephra deposits reported in the Magadan region. The best documented of these tephras has been correlated to the KO tephra from southern Kamchatka dated to 7600 BP. Though a key chronostratigraphic marker, no detailed compendium of the distribution of this tephra and its associated 14C dates has been available from sites in the northern Far East. We provide such a summary. Known locally as the Elikchan tephra, lake cores indicate an ash fall that extended ~1800 km north of the Kamchatkan caldera with a ~500 km wide trajectory in the Magadan region. Other Holocene tephras preserved in lake sediments have poorer age control and possibly date to ~2500 BP, ~2700 BP and ~6000 BP. These ashes seem to be restricted to coastal or near-coastal sites. Finally, a single record of a ~25,000 BP tephra has also been documented ~100 km to the northeast of Magadan.},
doi = {10.1134/S1819714016040047},
journal = {Russian Journal of Pacific Geology},
number = 4,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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