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Effect of varying oceanicity on early- to mid-Holocene palaeohydrology, Kola Peninsula, Russia: isotopic evidence from treeline lakes

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada; Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada bwolfe{at}wlu.ca

Thomas W. D. Edwards

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

Hongbo Jiang

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada; State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550002 China.

Glen M. MacDonald

Department of Geography, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1524, USA

Bruce R. Gervais

Department of Geography, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1524, USA; Department of Geography, California State University, Fresno, CA, 93740-8034, USA.

Jeffrey A. Snyder

Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 43403, USA

The stable-isotope stratigraphy of sedimentary organic matter and algal cellulose in cores from two lakes near treeline on the Kola Peninsula indicate changes in water and nutrient balance that correlate with inferred expansion of Pinus sylvestris during the early to mid-Holocene. Trends in cellulose-inferred lakewater ¹⁸O values for both lakes suggest that moist conditions after deglaciation were followed by progressive drying from about 9500 to between 8000 and 7500 ¹⁴C yr BP. Although pine appeared in the area by 8000 ¹⁴C yr BP, the maximum density of trees locally, as suggested by stomate evidence, occurred during subsequent moistening between 7500 and 6000 ¹⁴C yr BP. This is c. 1000 years later than in other regions of northern Russia and is possibly attributable to limitations on seedling establishment and survival due to root desiccation during dry winters. Changes in nutrient balance and productivity in the lakes, as inferred from variations in sediment carbon and nitrogen elemental abundances and their respective stable-isotope signatures, are also consistent with expected changes in hydrological and edaphic conditions. Development of moister conditions at about 7000 ¹⁴C yr BP on the Kola Peninsula is in harmony with evidence for increased oceanicity at this time in central Siberia, which is thought to reflect enhanced propagation of warm, moist air masses across northern Eurasia due to increased sea-surface temperatures and reduced sea-ice cover in the Nordic Seas.

Key Words: Isotope palaeohydrology • sedimentary organic matter • lacustrine sediments • carbon and nitrogen cycling • palaeoclimate • algal cellulose • treeline • Russia • Holocene

The Holocene, Vol. 13, No. 2, 153-160 (2003)
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603hl605ft


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