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Readyness Review, May 20-21, 2008, NSF

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Georg Schwamborn (AWI), Grisha Fedorov (AARI) Martin Melles (Univ. )

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Solifluction D3D3 LAKE EL´GYGYTGYN

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UPPER SEDIMENTARY UNIT

LOWER SEDIMENTARY UNIT   expected BRECCIA 500 m 500 m boundary

BEDROCK

12 km  Objectives

(1) Sediment succession in westen crater (overlayn lake sediments ?) (2) Permafrost boundary (extension of talik)

Permafrost D3 (< 200 m) m A B ri r te ra c D3 El´gygytgyn 0 Lake A B 40 lake 80 N 5 km 120 depth (m) 160 200 legend: slope deposits / Talik Permafrost paleo lake sediments Talik fallback breccia original crater floor (approx.) Objectives

(3) Paleoclimate 0 δ18O (‰) V-SMOW -30 -25 -20 -15 -10 -5

1 GMWL -50 pore ice -90 upper -130 )

m 2 upper ice wedge D (‰) V-SMOW

( samples

-170 δ h

t lower ice wedge

p

e d 3 lower after Schwamborn et al. (2007) ice wedge samples

4 ice wedge creek ice remains 5 Objectives

(4) Lake-Level History

- alluvial accumulation - succession of pebble bars (ancient shorelines) + 10 m unit 3 lake level 0 m Holocene

- pebble bar formation -10 m - onset of slope sedimentation + 10 m unit 2 lake level Late 0 m Pleistocene -10 m

+ 10 m - weathering and erosion of volcanic debris Pre-Late unit 1 0 m Pleistocene volcanic bedrock ? lake level (undated) - 10 m Schwamborn et al. (2007) Objectives

(5) Catchment Stability

E

T

A

L

E

N

E

C

O

L

O

H

legend:

Y

L

diamicton R

A

slope creep and wash E abrasion detritus weathering debris

E

volcanites N

E

fluvial deposits C

O

T permafrost table E

S

T

I

A polygonal ice wedges E

L

L

bands of ice lenses P Schwamborn et al. (2006) Objectives

(6) Permafrost Temperature Monitoring

IPA-IPY project TSP Operations Plan

(1) On-site Work

• Drilling in Nov./Dec. 2008 by „Chaun Geological Enterprises“ (CGE), Pevek • Penetration down to 200 m (or 2 sites with about 100 m each) • Air pressure (dry) drilling, cores not in liners

• Participants: Pavel Minyuk (PI, NEISRI Magadan) Grisha Fedorov (AARI St. Petersburg) NN Student (AARI St. Petersburg) Georg Schwamborn (AWI ) Lutz Schirmeister (AWI Potsdam) Bernhard Chabligin (AWI Potsdam) Jochem Kueck (ICDP-OSG, Potsdam) Martin Töpfer (ICDP-OSG, Potsdam) NN Film Team (Hoferichter & Jacobs, ) NN Film Team (Hoferichter & Jacobs, Berlin) Operations Plan

(1) On-site Work Sediment Log Cryo Log brown peat m 0 cement-like core documentation diamicton lens-like silty sands 10 sandy silts inclusions - logging / description green peat reticulate banded - labeling 20 pebbles - photography gravels massive - packaging ...... layered, horizontal 30 layered, vertical

borehole properties

- magnetic susceptibility - magnetic field - gamma ray spectrum & total - caliper & orientation

- permafrost temperature (-monitoring) - additional GPR lines Operations Plan

(1) On-site Work

• DIP-MAG dipmeter including 3D-magnetometer

•SGR gamma spektrum: U, Th, K, total gamma

•MS magnetic susceptibility

•MP T., p & mud resistivity Operations Plan

(2) Off-site Work 14C

sedimentology geochemistry 14C dating cryogenic cracking

Methane SOM CH4

permafrost gas analysis activity isolation molecular core ecology Operations Plan

(2) Off-site Work • Laboratory Analyses - whole-core physical properties magnetic susceptibility AWI , electrical conductivity AWI Bremerhaven, Germany p-wave velocity AWI Bremerhaven, Germany thermal conductivity GFZ Potsdam, Germany - paleo- and rock magnetics GFZ Potsdam, Germany - cryolithological analyses PIY Irkutsk, - ground ice fabric Univ. , Germany - ground ice chemistry AWI Potsdam, Germany - microbiology AWI Potsdam, Germany - sedimentology and mineralogy AWI Potsdam, Germany - organic geochemistry AWI Potsdam, Germany - geochronology SAW , Germany - paleobiology (pollen, diatoms, chiros) AARI St. Petersburg, Russia - paleolimnology (on pot. lake sediments) e.g. Univ. Cologne, Germany • Modeling - permafrost history and talik expension Univ. Dalhousie, USA AWI Potsdam, Germany