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Past Climate and Continentality Inferred from Ice Wedges at Batagay Megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere's Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere's most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia Article (Published Version) Opel, Thomas, Murton, Julian B, Wetterich, Sebastian, Meyer, Hanno, Ashastina, Kseniia, Günther, Frank, Grotheer, Hendrik, Mollenhauer, Gesine, Danilov, Petr P, Boeskorov, Vasily, Savvinov, Grigoriy N and Schirrmeister, Lutz (2019) Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere’s most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia. Climate of the Past, 15. pp. 1443-1461. ISSN 1814-9324 This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/85322/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. 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Past, 15, 1443–1461, 2019 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1443-2019 © Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere’s most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia Thomas Opel1,2, Julian B. Murton1, Sebastian Wetterich2, Hanno Meyer2, Kseniia Ashastina3, Frank Günther4,5,2, Hendrik Grotheer6, Gesine Mollenhauer6, Petr P. Danilov7, Vasily Boeskorov7, Grigoriy N. Savvinov7, and Lutz Schirrmeister2 1Permafrost Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RH, UK 2Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany 3Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, 99423 Weimar, Germany 4Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany 5Laboratory Geoecology of the North, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia 6Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany 7Science Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-East Federal University, 43 Lenin Avenue, Yakutsk 677007, Russia Correspondence: Thomas Opel ([email protected], [email protected]) Received: 23 October 2018 – Discussion started: 30 October 2018 Revised: 1 July 2019 – Accepted: 9 July 2019 – Published: 2 August 2019 Abstract. Ice wedges in the Yana Highlands of interior (mean δ18O about −33 ‰) and of the MIS 3–2 upper sand Yakutia – the most continental region of the Northern Hemi- unit (mean δ18O from about −33 ‰ to −30 ‰) are less dis- sphere – were investigated to elucidate changes in winter cli- tinctive regionally. The latter unit preserves traces of fast mate and continentality that have taken place since the Mid- formation in rapidly accumulating sand sheets and of post- dle Pleistocene. The Batagay megaslump exposes ice wedges depositional isotopic fractionation. and composite wedges that were sampled from three cryos- tratigraphic units: the lower ice complex of likely pre-Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 age, the upper ice complex (Yedoma) 1 Introduction and the upper sand unit (both MIS 3 to 2). A terrace of the nearby Adycha River provides a Late Holocene (MIS 1) ice Interior Yakutia is currently the most continental region of wedge that serves as a modern reference for interpretation. the Northern Hemisphere. In Verkhoyansk, the cold pole The stable-isotope composition of ice wedges in the MIS 3 of the Northern Hemisphere, mean monthly air tempera- upper ice complex at Batagay is more depleted (mean δ18O ture ranges exceed 60 ◦C and absolute temperature ranges about −35 ‰) than those from 17 other ice-wedge study sites can reach 100 ◦C (Lydolph, 1985). Mean annual precipita- across coastal and central Yakutia. This observation points tion is only 155 mm (Lydolph, 1985). Scarce stable-isotope to lower winter temperatures and therefore higher continen- data indicate that modern winter precipitation in this region tality in the Yana Highlands during MIS 3. Likewise, more has the most depleted isotopic composition in Siberia (Ku- depleted isotope values are found in Holocene wedge ice rita et al., 2004, 2005) according to the “continental effect” in (mean δ18O about −29 ‰) compared to other sites in Yaku- stable-isotope fractionation, i.e. the farthest distance from the tia. Ice-wedge isotopic signatures of the lower ice complex source region (Dansgaard, 1964). However, warm summers Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 1444 T. Opel et al.: Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump Figure 1. (a) Location map of study region in northeast Siberia showing all ice-wedge study sites mentioned. (b) Study sites in the Yana Highlands (background image: Sentinel-2 mosaic; 7 and 21 August 2017). enrich stable isotopes in summer precipitation at interior sites grate the stable-isotope composition of cold-season precip- compared to coastal sites in the north, which also reflects the itation (Meyer et al., 2015), which in high northern latitudes strong continentality of interior Yakutia. During Late Pleis- is mainly a function of temperature (Dansgaard, 1964). How- tocene cold stages, when lower sea level exposed larger areas ever, a knowledge gap exists about the winter paleoclimate of continental shelves, interior Yakutia probably experienced of interior Yakutia, because ice-wedge studies in the Yana even stronger continentality, with further decreased annual Highlands – between the Verkhoyansky and Chersky ranges precipitation and increased annual temperature amplitudes. – began only recently (Vasil’chuk et al., 2017). In contrast, Such increased amplitudes must have resulted from either other sites in east Siberia (west Beringia) have been exten- lower winter temperatures, higher summer temperatures, or sively studied over recent decades, including the coastal low- a combination of both. lands to the north (e.g. Meyer et al., 2002a, b; Opel et al., While biological proxies such as pollen or plant macrofos- 2017b), the Kolyma region to the east (e.g. Vasil’chuk et al., sil remains can be used to reconstruct summer climate, win- 2001; Vasil’chuk, 2013; Vasil’chuk and Vasil’chuk, 2014) as ter conditions in interior Yakutia may be inferred only from well as central Yakutia to the south (e.g. Popp et al., 2006) ice wedges, which can be found in Middle and Late Pleis- (Fig. 1). Ice-wedge studies have been carried out also in east tocene as well as Holocene permafrost deposits. Ice wedges Beringia, e.g. in Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territo- provide winter temperature information due to their specific ries (Kotler and Burn, 2000; Meyer et al., 2010b; Fritz et al., seasonality, with frost cracking in winter and crack infill- 2012; Lachniet et al., 2012; Porter et al., 2016). ing by snowmelt in spring (Opel et al., 2018). They inte- Clim. Past, 15, 1443–1461, 2019 www.clim-past.net/15/1443/2019/ T. Opel et al.: Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump 1445 Here, we report cryostratigraphic field observations of ice wedges and composite wedges made during a reconnaissance expedition from 27 July to 5 August 2017 together with stable-isotope data from the Batagay megaslump and Ady- cha River floodplain (Fig. 1). New radiocarbon ages from organic remains in ice wedges and host sediments help con- strain the late Quaternary chronology. The observations and ages elucidate the history of wedge development, past win- ter temperatures, and continentality starting from the Middle Pleistocene. 2 Study site characteristics, stratigraphy, and chronology Figure 2. Overview photograph of the Batagay megaslump show- Neither study site has been glaciated during at least the last ing the study sites of Ashastina et al. (2017) and Murton et al. (2017) 50 000 years, and the Batagay megaslump provides access to and this study. Photograph taken by Alexander Gabyshev in 2015. permafrost formations starting from the Middle Pleistocene (Ashastina et al., 2017; Murton et al., 2017). The present mean annual air temperature at Batagay is −15:4 ◦C (mean stimulated luminescence (OSL) and to 210:0 ± 23:0 kyr by of the coldest month: −47:7 ◦C; mean of the warmest month: infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) (Ashastina et al., 15.4 ◦C) and the mean annual precipitation is 170 to 200 mm 2017), pointing to its deposition during MIS 6. This age is (Ivanova, 2003). Prevailing wind directions are southwest in supported by palaeo-ecological data (Ashastina et al., 2018). winter (January) and north or northeast in summer (July) An organic-rich unit of silty sand with abundant wood and (Murton et al., 2017). The mean annual temperature of the plant remains (in lenses up to 3 m thick) overlies a dis- permafrost is −8:0 to −5:5 ◦C and the active-layer depth be- tinct erosional surface near the top of the lower sand unit. tween 0.2 and 0.4 m beneath forest and moss covers and 0.4– A wood fragment yielded a conventional radiocarbon age 14 1.2 m beneath open sites (Ivanova, 2003).
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