Coring of Karakel’ Lake sediments (Teberda River valley) and prospects for reconstruction of glaciation and Holocene climate history in the Caucasus


https://doi.org/10.15356/2076-6734-2013-2-102-111

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Abstract

Lacustrine sediments represent an important data source for glacial and palaeoclimatic reconstructions. Having a number of certain advantages, they can be successfully used as a means of specification of glacier situation and age of moraine deposits, as well as a basis for detailed climatic models of the Holocene. The article focuses on the coring of sediments of Lake Kakakel (Western Caucasus) that has its goal to clarify the Holocene climatic history for the region, providing the sampling methods, lithologic description of the sediment core, obtained radiocarbon dating and the element composition of the sediments. The primary outlook over the results of coring of the sediments of the Lake Karakyol helped to reconsider the conventional opinion on the glacial fluctuations in the valley of Teberda and to assume the future possibility for high-definition palaeoclimatic reconstruction for Western Caucasus.

About the Authors

O. N. Solomina
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


P. A. Kalugin
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk;
Russian Federation


M. Yu. Aleksandrin
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


I. S. Bushueva
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


A. V. Darin
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk;
Russian Federation


E. A. Dolgova
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


V. Jomelli
Laboratory of Physical Geography, CNRS, Medon, France
Russian Federation


M. N. Ivanov
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


V. V. Matskovsky
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


D. V. Ovchinnikov
Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russian Academy of Science, Krasnoyarsk;
Russian Federation


I. O. Pavlolva
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


L. V. Razumovsky
Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Russian Federation


A. A. Chepurnaya
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Russian Federation


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For citation: Solomina O.N., Kalugin P.A., Aleksandrin M.Y., Bushueva I.S., Darin A.V., Dolgova E.A., Jomelli V., Ivanov M.N., Matskovsky V.V., Ovchinnikov D.V., Pavlolva I.O., Razumovsky L.V., Chepurnaya A.A. Coring of Karakel’ Lake sediments (Teberda River valley) and prospects for reconstruction of glaciation and Holocene climate history in the Caucasus. Ice and Snow. 2013;53(2):102-111. https://doi.org/10.15356/2076-6734-2013-2-102-111

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