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Pages:
IX, 190 Seiten
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http://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.33277.d001
Language:
English
Note:
Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2008
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Table of contents
Kurzfassung
Abstract
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Scientific background
1.1.1 Arctic environmental dynamics
1.1.2 Freshwater ostracods and their use in palaeoenvironmental studies
1.1.3 Permafrost and periglacial environment
1.2 Aims and approaches
1.3 Study region
1.3.1 Study sites
1.3.2 Geological characteristics
1.3.3 Climate
1.3.4 Periglacial freshwaters
1.4 Synopsis
Chapter 2: Arctic freshwater ostracods from modern periglacial environments in the Lena River Delta (Siberian Arctic, Russia): geochemical applications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
2.1 Abstract
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Study area and types of water bodies
2.4 Materials and methods
2.5 Results
2.5.1 Physico-chemical characteristics of the ostracod habitats
2.5.2 Ostracod taxonomy and environmental ranges of their habitats
2.5.3 Ostracod geochemistry
2.6 Discussion
2.6.1 Taxonomy and ecology of ostracods
2.6.2 Element ratios in ostracods and ambient waters
2.6.3 Stable isotopes in ostracods and ambient waters
2.7 Conclusions
Chapter 3: Evaporation effects as reflected in freshwaters and ostracod calcite from modern environments in Central and Northeast Yakutia (East Siberia, Russia)
3.1 Abstract
3.2 Introduction
3.3 Study area
3.4 Material and methods
3.4.1 Field work
3.4.2 Water analyses
3.4.3 Ostracod analyses
3.5 Results
3.5.1 Physico-chemical characteristics of the lakes and ponds
3.5.2 Ostracod taxonomy and environmental ranges
3.5.3 Stable isotopes in host waters and ostracod calcite
3.5.4 Element ratios in host waters and ostracod calcite
3.6 Discussion
3.6.1 Physico-chemical characteristics of the lakes and ponds
3.6.2 Ostracod taxonomy, biogeography, and environmental ranges
3.6.3 Stable isotopes in ostracod calcite
3.6.4 Element ratios in ostracod calcite
3.7 Conclusions
Chapter 4: Eemian and Late Glacial/Holocene palaeoenvironmental records from permafrost sequences at the Dimitri Laptev Strait (NE Siberia, Russia)
4.1 Abstract
4.2 Introduction
4.3 Regional setting
4.4 Material and methods
4.4.1 Field methods and cryolithology
4.4.2 Geochronology
4.4.3 Sedimentology and stable isotopes
4.4.4 Palaeoecological proxies
4.5 Results
4.5.1 Geochronology, lithostratigraphy, sedimentology, and cryolithology
4.5.1.1 Eemian sequences
4.4.1.2 Late Glacial/Holocene sequences
4.5.2 Stable isotope ground ice records
4.5.3 Pollen studies
4.5.3.1 Eemian sequences
4.5.3.2 Late Glacial/Holocene sequences
4.5.4 Ostracod studies
4.5.4.1 Eemian sequences
4.5.4.2 Late Glacial/Holocene sequences
4.6 Discussion and Interpretation
4.6.1 Local palaeoenvironmental changes during the Eemian
4.6.2 Local palaeoenvironmental changes during the Late Glacial/Holocene
4.6.3 Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of ostracod calcite δ18O data
4.7 Conclusions
Chapter 5: Synthesis
5.1 Taxonomy and ecology of ostracods
5.2 Geochemistry of ostracods
5.3 Indicator potential of freshwater ostracods in late Quaternary permafrost deposits
5.4 Outlook
Appendix I: Freshwater ostracodes in Quaternary permafrost deposits in the Siberian Arctic
I.1 Abstract
I.2 Introduction
I.3 Study area and geological background
I.4 Materials and methods
I.5 Results and interpretations
I.5.1 Ostracode zone I
I.5.2 Ostracode zone II
I.5.3 Ostracode zone III
I.5.4 Ostracode zone IV
I.5.5 Ostracode zone V
I.5.6 Ostracode zone VI
I.6 Conclusions 125
Appendix II: Palaeoenvironmental dynamics inferred from late Quaternary permafrost deposits on Kurungnakh Island, Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia, Russia
II.1 Abstract
II.2 Introduction
II.3 Regional setting
II.4 Material and methods
II.4.1 Sedimentology and cryolithology
II.4.2 Geochronology
II.4.3 Stable isotopes
II.3.4 Palaeoecological proxies
II.5 Results
II.5.1 Lithostratigraphy, sedimentology, and cryolithology
II.5.1.1 Unit I
II.5.1.2 Unit II
II.5.1.3 Unit III
II.5.1.4 Unit IV
II.5.1.5 Unit V
II.5.2 Geochronology
II.5.3 Oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes of ground ice
II.5.4 Palynological studies
II.5.5 Plant macrofossils
II.5.6 Ostracod remains
II.5.7 Insect remains
II.5.8 Mammal remains
II.6 Discussion
II.6.1 Local stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental interpretation
II.6.2 Beringian palaeoenvironmental context
II.7 Conclusions
Supplementary data A
Supplementary data B
Supplementary data C
Appendix III: Data tables from Chapters 2 and 3
Appendix IV: References
Acknowledgements
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