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Examining The Mid- Brunhes Event In The Terrestrial Arctic: An Organic Geochemical Record From Lake El’Gygytgyn, Russia, Mary Helen Habicht
Examining The Mid- Brunhes Event In The Terrestrial Arctic: An Organic Geochemical Record From Lake El’Gygytgyn, Russia, Mary Helen Habicht
Masters Theses
The characteristic glacial and interglacial cycles of the Pleistocene underwent a climatic transition at ~430 ka known as the Mid- Brunhes Event (MBE). Many studies, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere have noted that after this transition, the amplitude of the climatic cycles increased. Despite the indication of an MBE signal in many globally distributed paleoclimate records, the geographic extent of the climatic transition remains unknown and its presence in northern hemisphere and terrestrial records is debated. Lake El’gygytgyn is located in the far- east Russian Arctic and provides the longest, most continuous record of Arctic climate (3.6 Ma). This study …
Arctic Environmental Change Across The Pliocene-Pleistocene Transition, Benjamin Andrew Keisling
Arctic Environmental Change Across The Pliocene-Pleistocene Transition, Benjamin Andrew Keisling
Masters Theses
Environmental change in the Arctic proceeds at an unprecedented rate. The Pliocene epoch (5-2.65 million years ago) represents an analog for future climate conditions, with pCO2 and continental configurations similar to present. Yet conditions in the Pliocene Arctic are poorly characterized because of sparse sampling. The records that do exist indicate periods of extreme warmth, as well as the first expansion of large ice-sheets in the Northern Hemisphere, took place from the end of the Pliocene into the early Pleistocene. Understanding these deposits and their implications for our future requires developing a sense of climatic evolution across the …