AMS ¹⁴C Dating of Pollen Concentrate from Late Pleistocene Iсe Wedges from the Bison and Seyaha Sites in Siberia

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Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates of pollen concentrate were obtained from multistage syngenetic ice wedges of cross-sections from the Late Pleistocene Bison site, located along the Lower Kolyma River (68°34'N, 158°34'E), from ∼43,600 to ∼26,200 BP, and 3 AMS ¹⁴C dates of pollen concentrate in ice wedges from the Seyaha site cross-section, located on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula (70°10'N, 72°34'E), from ∼22,400 to ∼25,200 BP. Pollen concentrate samples were prepared using a special pretreatment procedure. Pollen and spores from ice-wedge ice signalize a regional pollen rain. Therefore, ¹⁴C-dated extracts of pollen and spores from ice-wedge ice enable an adequate reconstruction and chronology of landscape dynamics on a regional scale. The pollen and spores were well preserved despite numerous redepositions in the penecontemporaneous structure in which they were found. Thus, a comparison with dates on other fractions from the same sample is necessary. The youngest date is the most reliable among the intersample AMS ¹⁴C dates from the ice and permafrost sediments.

Data was submitted and proofread by Yurij K Vasil'chuk and Lyubov Bludushkina at the faculty of Geography, department of Geochemistry of Landscapes and Geography of Soils, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.919481
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033822200019755
Related Identifier https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Vasichuck-etal_2020/Method_Ice-wedge.pdf
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Creator Vasil'chuk, Alla Constantinovna (ORCID: 0000-0003-1921-030X); Kim, Jong-Chan; Vasil'chuk, Yurij K ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2020
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 4 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (72.567W, 68.567S, 158.567E, 70.167N)