Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
TRACKING LATE HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE 1908 TUNGUSKA IMPACT EVENT FROM LAKE SEDIMENTS IN CENTRAL SIBERIA
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2025
Языканглийский
  • Nazarova Larisa Borisovna, author
  • Palagushkina Olga Viktorovna, author
  • Frolova Larisa Aleksandrovna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Denis Yu. Rogozin, Larisa B. Nazarova, Natalia A Rudaya, Larisa A Frolova, Galina N Bolobanshchikova, Olga V Palagushkina, Andrei V Darin, Artur V Meydus Tracking late Holocene climate change and the 1908 Tunguska impact event from lake sediments in central Siberia Quaternary Research, 2025, p.1-19,
    Annotation The palaeoclimate of a vast region of Central Siberia is almost unexplored in comparison to the adjacent regions of Siberia. We investigated a 2200-year-old sediment section from a small, deep, freshwater Lake Zapovednoye near the site of the «Tunguska impact event of 1908«. Analysis of the chemical composition of sediments and variations of bioproxy (pollen, chironomids, Cladocera, diatoms) revealed traces of climatic fluctuations during the investigated time period: a cool climate before 1000 CE, the Medieval Climatic Optimum, the Little Ice Age, and the modern warming. An increased content of terrigenous elements was identified at the depth corresponding to ca 1908 CE. This layer presumably appeared due to the erosion of the soil cover after the fall of trees following the Tunguska event, the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history. For the first time we could detect the reaction of the lake biota to the impact event. We revealed that the taxonomic diversity of hydrobionts (chironomids and cladocerans), significantly declined after the catastrophe, probably due to increased turbidity, and relatively quickly recovered later. Pollen and diatom assemblages demonstrate weaker compositional shifts. This layer served as an additional stratigraphic marker to support the age model of the investigated core
    Keywords climate change, Siberia, Tunguska 1908 impact event, XRF, 43 permafrost, pollen, chironomids, Cladocera, diatoms
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