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Title: SEDIMENT DISPERSION IN A LARGE ICE-CONTACT LAKE RECONSTRUCTED FROM A VARVE RECORD: PARNU BAY REGION, ESTONIA

SEDIMENT DISPERSION IN A LARGE ICE-CONTACT LAKE RECONSTRUCTED FROM A VARVE RECORD: PARNU BAY REGION, ESTONIA
A. Kalvans;T. Hang;M. Kohv
1314-2704
English
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Interpretation of climate change and deglaciation events from palaeovarves requires a complete understanding of varve composition, depositional environments and the non-climatic events that may influence varve thickness record. We examined a Baltic Ice Lake varve-thickness chronology from western Estonia, eastern Baltic Sea, composed of 26 individual varve series and spanning 584 years of Late Weichselian deglaciation. The direction (azimuth) to the increasing seasonal layer thickness and correlation between the water depth and the seasonal layer thickness were calculated for each annual varve and presented as time series. The results demonstrate clear temporal changes in deposition in accordance with irregular ice recession and the topography of the lake bottom. It is found that the sedimentation in the ice-proximal environment is dominated by sediment distribution as underflows and as a result the bottom topography has a stronger effect on the sediment accumulation than the proximity to the ice margin. Lack of expected correlation between the water depth and the winter layer thickness in the ice-proximal environment is attributed to thermal water circulation. Basin-wide simultaneous shift in relation to seasonal layer thickness within a varve is explained by the trapping of coarser material in the newly opened sedimentary basin north of the study area.
conference
18th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2018
18th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2018, 02-08 July, 2018
Proceedings Paper
STEF92 Technology
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference-SGEM
Bulgarian Acad Sci; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Slovak Acad Sci; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; World Acad Sci; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Ac
457-464
02-08 July, 2018
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cdrom
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Baltic Ice Lake; Varve clays; Deglaciation; Ice-contact lake; Late Weichselian; Estonia

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