Archive data on climate changes and seismic events in glacial clays of Lake Kucherla (Altai region, Russia)

Autor: A. V. Darin, G. Chu, Q. Sun, V. V. Babich, I. A. Kalugin, T. I. Markovich, V. S. Novikov, F. A. Darin, Y. V. Rakshun
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Geodinamika i Tektonofizika, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 624-631 (2020)
ISSN: 2078-502X
DOI: 10.5800/gt-2020-11-3-0495
Popis: Core samples taken from the bottom sediments of the glacial Lake Kucherla (Gorny Altai, Russia) clearly show annual layers represented by glacial clays. In our study, age-depth modeling is based the varve chronology and Cs-137, Pb-210 and C-14 isotope data. Our model is a highly accurate and reliable demonstration of the annual sedimentation history within the past 1400 years. The time series of geochemical indicators of climate change were obtained by synchrotron radiation micro X-ray fluorescence (SR- μ XRF) core scanning. Instrumental meteorological observations from 1940 to 2016 were used to construct transfer functions for the average annual temperatures and atmospheric precipitation amounts. A geochemical trace of a catastrophic seismic event, the Mongolian earthquake of 1761, was found in the cross-section of the bottom sediments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE