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Middle To Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions From Lake El'gygytgyn, Arctic Russia, Mary Helen Habicht
Middle To Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions From Lake El'gygytgyn, Arctic Russia, Mary Helen Habicht
Doctoral Dissertations
Climate change is a major issue challenging the world today. Our global society faces rising temperatures, variable weather patterns, and rising sea level among other associated issues. Our action (or inaction) to address current changes will have serious ramifications for life on our planet in the coming centuries and millennia. In order to provide context for these present and future changes, we can utilize the paleo record to understand the natural variability of Earth’s climate system. One region of the world is changing more rapidly than the global average. Over recent decades, the Arctic has experienced warmer temperatures, reduced sea …
Exploring Isotopic Signatures Of Lake El'gygytgyn Sediments For Evidence Of Anoxia And Methane Cycling Over The Past 50,000 Years, Addie R. Holland
Exploring Isotopic Signatures Of Lake El'gygytgyn Sediments For Evidence Of Anoxia And Methane Cycling Over The Past 50,000 Years, Addie R. Holland
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Compound specific isotope analysis of lake sediments is a powerful tool in deciphering evidence of changing climatic and paleoenvironmental conditions through time. Isotopic analysis of Lake El’gygytgyn pilot sediment cores, PG1351 and LZ1029, have contributed increased insight into paleoenvironmental interpretations regarding conditions of permanent ice cover and water column anoxia at the lake over the past 250 kyr. Bulk sediment δ15N was measured as a proxy for denitrification and a possible indicator for water column anoxia intensity. However, it appears that insufficient quantities of water column nitrate to fuel denitrification make its correlation with anoxia intensity ineffective. In pilot core …