A new deep ice core from Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya, Eurasian Arctic: first results


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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The paper presents first results from the upper 54m of a 723.91m ice core drilled on Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya, Eurasian Arctic, in 1999– 2001, supplemented by data from shallow ice cores. the glacier’s peculiarity is the infiltration and refreezing of meltwater, which changes the original isotopic and chemical signals. Therefore, stratigraphical observations in these ice cores are more difficult than in those from central Greenland or Antarctica. However, the 1963 maximum of artificial radioactivity from atmospheric nuclear tests is clearly detectable in the deep ice core, and the δ<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O profile of a 12.82 m shallow core shows annual variations. Consequently, at least for the upper part of the main core, an almost seasonal time resolution of palaeoclimate record could be expected. the Chernobyl layer is detected by increased <jats:sup>137</jats:sup>Cs activity at depths of 11.81–12.51m related to the AD 2000 surface. the resulting mean annual net mass balance is 53±2 g cm<jats:sup>–2</jats:sup> a<jats:sup>–1</jats:sup>. Data from dielectric profiling of the main core show considerable peaks in conductivity; one of them is interpreted as a volcano event. According to the resulting chronology, this part of the core represents approximately the last 100 years.</jats:p>



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DOI https://www.doi.org/10.3189/172756402781816645

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Fritzsche, D. , Wilhelms, F. , Savatyugin, L. M. , Pinglot, J. F. , Meyer, H. , Hubberten, H. W. and Miller, H. (2002): A new deep ice core from Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya, Eurasian Arctic: first results , Annals of Glaciology, 35 , pp. 25-28 . doi: https://www.doi.org/10.3189/172756402781816645


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