Data set on sedimentology, palaeoecology and chronology of middle to late pleistocene deposits on the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia

Per Möller; Ívar Örn Benediktsson; Johanna Anjar; Ole Bennike; Martin Bernhardson; Svend Funder; Lena M Håkansson; Geoffrey Lemdahl; Joseph M Licciardi; Andrew S Murray; Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104267

Data set on sedimentology, palaeoecology and chronology of middle to late pleistocene deposits on the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia

Data Brief. 2019 Jul 17:25:104267. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104267. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geology, Quaternary Sciences, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.
² Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, IS-101 Reykjavík, Iceland.
³ Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Gullbringvegen 36, 3800, Bø, Norway.
⁴ GEUS, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 København K, Denmark.
⁵ Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 København K, Denmark.
⁶ The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), P.O. Box 156 N-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway.
⁷ Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, SE-39182 Kalmar, Sweden.
⁸ Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, 56 College Road, Durham, NH, 03824, USA.
⁹ The Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating, Department of Earth Sciences, Aarhus University, Risø National Laboratory, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
¹⁰ Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate Group, Arctic Research Centre, and iClimate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Høegh Guldbergs Gade 2, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

Abstract

This Data in Brief paper contains data (including images) from Quaternary sedimentary successions investigated along the Bol'shaya Balakhnya River and the Luktakh-Upper Taimyra-Logata river system on southern Taimyr Peninsula, NW Siberia (Russia). Marine foraminifera and mollusc fauna composition, extracted from sediment samples, is presented. The chronology (time of deposition) of the sediment successions is reconstructed from three dating methods; (i) radiocarbon dating of organic detritus (from lacustrine/fluvial sediment) and molluscs (marine sediment) as finite ages (usually <42 000 years) or as non-finite ages (>42 000-48 000 years) on samples/sediments beyond the radiocarbon dating limit; (ii) Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating on marine molluscs (up to ages >400 000 years); (iii) Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating, usually effective up to 100-150 0000 years. Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide (TCN) exposure dating has been applied to boulders resting on top of moraine ridges (Ice Marginal Zones). See (Möller et al., 2019) (doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.004) for interpretation and discussion of all data.

Keywords: ESR dating; Glacial history; Glacial sedimentology; Kara Sea ice sheet; OSL dating; TCN dating; Taimyr.