A late quaternary record of eolian silt deposition in a maar lake, St. Michael Island, western Alaska

Quaternary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 110-122

  Muhs, Daniel R ^a   Ager, Thomas A ^a   Been, Josh ^a   Bradbury, J Platt ^b   Dean, Walter E ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Geochemistry; Lake sediments; Last glacial period; Loess; Paleoclimate; St. Michael Island

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; MAAR; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SILT;

ALASKA; ST. MICHAEL ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041876258     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00062-0     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Ager, T.A., 1982. Vegetational history of western Alaska during the Wisconsin glacial interval and the Holocene, in: Hopkins, D.M., Matthews Jr., J.V., Schweger, C.E., Young, S.B. (Eds.), Paleoecology of Beringia. Academic Press, New York, pp. 75-93.
2. Ager, T.A., 1983. Holocene vegetational history of Alaska, in: Wright Jr., H.E. (Ed.), Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States Volume 2 The Holocene, University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, pp. 128-141.
3. Ager, T.A., 2003. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history of the central Bering land bridge from St. Michael Island, western Alaska. Quaternary Research, this volume.
4. Ager, T.A., Brubaker, L., 1985, Quaternary palynology and vegetational history of Alaska, in: Bryant Jr., V.M., Holloway, R.G. (Eds.), Pollen Records of Late-Quaternary North American Sediments, American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas, Texas, pp. 353-383.
5. Aleinikoff, J.N., Muhs, D.R., Sauer, R., Fanning, C.M., 1999. Late Quaternary loess in northeastern Colorado, Part II-Pb isotopic evidence for the variability of loess sources. Geological Society of American Bulletin 111, 1876-1883.
6. Anderson, L., Abbott, M.B., and Finney, B.P., 2001a. Alaska lake sediment data and Holocene climate reconstructions. IGBP PAGES World Data Center for Paleoclimatology (Boulder. Colorado), Data Contribution Series, 2001-038.
7. Anderson, L., Abbott, M.B., Finney, B.P., 2001b. Holocene climate inferred from oxygen isotope ratios in lake sediments, central Brooks Range, Alaska. Quaternary Research 55, 313-321.
8. 14C timescale over the past 30,000 years using mass-spectrometric U-Th ages from Barbados corals. Nature 345, 405-410.
9. Bartlein, P.J., Anderson, K.H., Anderson, P.M., Edwards, M.E., Mock, C.J., Thompson, R.S., Webb, R.S., Webb III, T., Whitlock, C., 1998. Paleoclimate simulations for North America over the past 21,000 years: features of the simulated climate and comparisons with paleoenvironmental data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 549-585.
10. Begét, J.E., 1988. Tephras and sedimentology of frozen loess. International Permafrost Conference Proceedings 5, 672-677.
11. Begét, J.E., 1990. Middle Wisconsin climate fluctuations recorded in central Alaskan loess. Géographie Physique et Quaternaire 44, 3-13.
12. Begét, J., Mason, O., Anderson, P., 1992. Age, extent and climatic significance of the c. 3400 BP Aniakchak tephra, western Alaska, USA. The Holocene 2, 51-56.
13. Begét, J.E., Hopkins, D.M., Charron, S.D., 1996. The largest known maars on Earth, Seward Peninsula, northwest Alaska. Arctic 49, 62-69.
14. Berger, A., Loutre, M.F., 1991. Insolation values for the climate of the last 10 million years. Quaternary Science Reviews 10, 297-317.
15. Bradbury, J.P., Grosjean, M., Stine, S., Sylvestre, F., 2001. Full and late glacial lake records along the PEP 1 transect: their role in developing interhemispheric paleoclimate interactions. in: Markgraf, V. (Ed.), Interhemispheric Climate Linkages, Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 265-291.
16. Buurman, P., Pape, Th., Muggler, C.C., 1997. Laser grain-size determination in soil genetic studies 1. Practical Problems. Soil Science 162, 211-218.
17. Colinvaux, P.A., 1964. The environment of the Bering Land Bridge. Ecological Monographs 34, 297-329.
18. Colinvaux, P.A., 1967. A long pollen record from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska. Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 3, 29-48.
19. Colman, S.M., Peck, J.A., Karabanov, E.B., Carter, S.J., Bradbury, J.P., King, J.W., Williams, D.F., 1995. Continental climate response to orbital forcing from biogenic silica records in Lake Baikal. Nature 378, 769-771.
20. Dean, W.E., 1997. Rates, timing, and cyclicity of Holocene eolian activity in north-central United States: evidence from varved lake sediments. Geology 25, 331-334.
21. Elias, S.A., Short, S.K., Nelson, C.H., Birks, H.H., 1996. Life and times of the Bering Land Bridge. Nature 382, 60-63.
22. Fairbanks, R.G., 1989. A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: influence of glacial melting rates on the Younger Dryas event and deep-ocean circulation. Nature 342, 637-642.
23. Feely, R.A., Massoth, G.J., Paulson, A.J., 1981. The distribution and elemental composition of suspended particulate matter in Norton Sound and the northeastern Bering Sea shelf: implications for Mn and Zn recycling in coastal waters, in: Hood, D.W., Calder, J.A. (Eds.), The Eastern bering Sea Shelf: Oceanography and Resources Volume One, U.S. Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C. pp. 321-337.
24. Goetcheus, V.G., Birks, H.H., 2001. Full-glacial upland tundra vegetation preserved under tephra in the Beringia National Park, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 135-147.
25. Hallett, B., Hunter, L., Bogen, J., 1996. Rates of erosion and sediment evacuation by glaciers: a review of field data and their implications. Global and Planetary Change 12, 213-235.
26. Hamilton, T.D., 1982. A late Pleistocene glacial chronology for the southern Brooks Range: stratigraphic record and regional significance. Geological Society of America Bulletin 93, 700-716.
27. Hamilton, T.D., 1994. Late Cenozoic glaciation of Alaska, in: Plafker, G., Berg, H.C. (Eds.), The Geology of Alaska, The Geology of North America, v. G-1. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 813-844.
28. Hoare, J.M., and Condon, W.H., 1971. Geologic Map of the St. Michael Quadrangle, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map 1-682.
29. Höfle, C., Ping, C.-L., 1996. Properties and soil development of late-Pleistocene paleosols from Seward Peninsula, northwest Alaska. Geoderma 71, 219-243.
30. Höfle, C., Edwards, M.E., Hopkins, D.M., Mann, D.H., Ping, C.-L., 2000. The full-glacial environment of the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, reconstructed from the 21,500-year-old Kitluk paleosol. Quaternary Research 53, 143-153.
31. Hopkins, D.M., 1963. Geology of the Imuruk Lake area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1141-C, 101 pp.
32. Hopkins, D.M., 1972. The paleogeography and climatic history of Beringia during late Cenozoic time. Inter-Nord 12, 121-150.
33. Hopkins, D.M., 1982. Aspects of the paleogeography of Beringia during the late Pleistocene, in: Hopkins, D.M., Matthews Jr., J.V., Schweger, C.E., Young, S.B. (Eds.). Paleoecology of Beringia, Academic Press, New York, pp. 3-28.
34. Kaufman, D.S., Calkin, P.E., 1988. Morphometric analysis of Pleistocene glacial deposits in the Kigluaik Mountains, northwestern Alaska, U.S.A. Arctic and Alpine Research 20, 273-284.
35. Kohfeld, K.E., Harrison, S.P., 2001. DIRTMAP: the geological record of dust. Earth-Science Reviews 54, 81-114.
36. Lea, P.D., Waythomas, C.F., 1990. Late-Pleistocene eolian sand sheets in Alaska. Quaternary Research 34, 269-281.
37. McCulloch, D., Hopkins, D., 1966. Evidence for an early Recent warm interval in northwestern Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin 77, 1089-1108.
38. Muhs, D.R., Bettis III, E.A., 2000. Geochemical variations in Peoria Loess of western lowa indicate paleowinds of midcontinental North America during last glaciation. Quaternary Research 53, 49-61.
39. Muhs, D.R., Aleinikoff, J.N., Stafford Jr., T.W., Kihl, R., Been, J., Mahan, S.A., Cowherd, S.D., 1999. Late Quaternary loess in northeastern Colorado: Part I-Age and paleoclimatic significance. Geological Society of America Bulletin 111, 1861-1875.
40. Muhs, D.R., Ager, T.A., Bettis, III, E.A., McGeehin, J., Been, J.M., Begét, J.E., Pavich, M.J., Stafford, Jr., T.W., Pinney, D., 2003. Stratigraphy and paleoclimatic significance of late Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences of the last interglacial-glacial cycle in central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, in press.
41. Péwé, T.L., 1955. Origin of the upland silt near Fairbanks, Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin 66, 699-724.
42. Péwé, T.L., 1975. Quaternary geology of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 835, 145 pp.
43. Pye, K., Sherwin, D., 1999. Loess, in: Goudie, A.S., Livingstone, I., Stokes, S. (Eds.), Aeolian Environments. Sediments and Landforms, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chicester, pp. 213-238.
44. Riehle, J.R., Meyer, C.E., Ager, T.A., Kaufman, D.S., Ackerman, R.E., 1987. The Aniakchak tephra deposit, a late Holocene marker horizon in western Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 998, 19-22.
45. Sainsbury, C.L., 1972. Geologic Map of the Teller Quadrangle, Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map 1-685, scale 1:250,000.
46. Stuiver, M., Reimer, P.J., Bard, E., Beck, J.W., Burr, G.S., Hughen, K.A., Kromer, B., McCormac, G., van der Plicht, J., Spurk, M., 1998. INTCAL 98 Radiocarbon age calibration, 24,000-0 cal BP. Radiocarbon 40, 1041-1083.
47. Tsoar, H., Pye, K., 1987. Dust transport and the question of desert loess formation. Sedimentology 34, 139-153.
48. Voelker, A.H.L., Grootes, P.M., Nadeau, M.-J., Sarnthein, M., 2000. Radiocarbon levels in the Iceland Sea from 25-53 kyr and their link to the Earth's magnetic field intensity. Radiocarbon 42, 437-452.
49. Westgate, J.A., Stemper, B.A., Péwé, T.L., 1990. A 3 m.y. record of Pliocene-Pleistocene loess in interior Alaska. Geology 18, 858-861.
50. Wright, J.S., 2001. "Desert" loess versus "glacial" loess: quartz silt formation, source areas and sediment pathways in the formation of loess deposits. Geomorphology 36, 231-256.
51. Xiao, J.L., Inouchi, Y., Kumai, H., Yoshikawa, S., Kondo, Y., Liu, T.S., An, Z.S., 1997. Eolian quartz flux to Lake Biwa, central Japan, over the past 145,000 years. Quaternary Research 48, 48-57.
52. Yokoyama, Y., Esat, T.M., Lambeck, K., 2001. Coupled climate and sea-level changes deduced from Huon Peninsula coral terraces of the last ice age. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 193, 579-587.