New insights into Late Pleistocene glacial and postglacial history of northernmost Ungava (Canada) from Pingualuit Crater Lake sediments

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作者
Guyard, Herve [1 ]
St-Onge, Guillaume [1 ]
Pienitz, Reinhard [2 ,3 ]
Francus, Pierre [4 ]
Zolitschka, Bernd [5 ]
Clarke, Garry K. C. [6 ]
Hausmann, Sonja [7 ]
Salonen, Veli-Pekka [8 ]
Lajeunesse, Patrick [2 ,3 ]
Ledoux, Gregoire [2 ,3 ]
Lamothe, Michel [9 ]
机构
[1] UQAR, Inst Sci Mer Rimouski ISMER, Canada Res Chair Marine Geol, Rimouski, PQ, Canada
[2] Univ Laval, CEN, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
[3] Univ Laval, Dept Geog, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
[4] Inst Natl Rech Sci, Ctr Eau, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
[5] Univ Bremen, Inst Geog, Bremen, Germany
[6] Univ British Columbia, Dept Earth & Ocean Sci, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
[7] Univ Arkansas, Dept Geosci, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
[8] Univ Helsinki, Dept Geosci & Geog, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[9] Univ Quebec Montreal, Dept Sci Terre & Atmosphere, Montreal, PQ, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Lacustrine sediments; Stratigraphy; Multiproxy; Late Pleistocene; Ungava; Crater Lake; Subglacial Lake; LAURENTIDE ICE-SHEET; NOUVEAU-QUEBEC; HUDSON STRAIT; ARCTIC LAKE; KA BP; MARINE; PENINSULA; RECONSTRUCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; STRATIGRAPHY;
D O I
10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.002
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
The Pingualuit Crater was formed by a meteoritic impact ca. 1.4 million years ago in northernmost Ungava (Canada). Due to its geographical position near the center of successive North American ice sheets and its favorable morphometry, the Pingualuit Crater Lake (water depth = 246 m) promises to yield a unique continuous sedimentary sequence covering several glacial/interglacial cycles in the terrestrial Canadian Arctic. In this paper, we suggest the existence of a subglacial lake at least during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) by hydraulic potential modeling using LGM ice-surface elevation and bed topography derived from a digital elevation model. These results support the hypothesis that the bottom sediments of the Crater Lake escaped glacial erosion and may contain a long-term continental sedimentary sequence. We also present the stratigraphy of a 9 m-long core retrieved from the deep basin of the lake as well as a multiproxy reconstruction of its deglacial and postglacial history. The base of the core is formed by very dense diamicton reflecting basal melt-out environments marking the end of subglacial conditions at the coring site. The overlying finely laminated silt are related to the onset of proglacial conditions characterized by extremely low lacustrine productivity. Infra Red Stimulated Luminescence and AMS C-14 dating, as well as biostratigraphic data indicate sediment mixing between recent (e.g. Holocene) and much older (pre- to mid-Wisconsinan) material reworked by glacier activity. This process prevents the precise dating of these sediments that we interpret as being deposited just before the final deglaciation of the lake. Two finer grained and organic-rich intervals reflect the inception of lacustrine productivity resulting from the cessation of glacial meltwater inputs and ice-free periods. The lower organic interval corresponds to the early postglacial period (6850-5750 cal BP) and marks the transition between proglacial and postglacial conditions during the Holocene Thermal Maximum, while the uppermost organic-rich core section represents late Holocene sediments (similar to 4200-600 cal BP). The organic intervals are separated by a basin-scale erosive slide occurring around 4200 cal BP and likely related to 1) a seismic event due to the glacio-isostatic rebound following the last deglaciation or 2) slope instabilities associated with rapid discharge events of the lake. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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