Giant Late Pleistocene paleolake in Central Kamchatka depression (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East)

Authors

  • Zelenin, E.A. 1
  • Ponomareva, V.V. 2
  • Fedorov, G.B. 3, 4
  • Gurinov, A.L. 5, 6
  • Zakharov, A.L. 5
  • Dirksen, O.V. 2
  • Mukhametshina, E.O. 5
  • Portnyagin, M.V. 7
    • 1 Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky lane 7, Moscow 119017, Russia
    2 Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Piip blvd, 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 683006, Russia
    3 Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Bering str., 38, St Petersburg, 199397, Russia
    4 Saint Petersburg State University, University Embankment, 7/9, St Petersburg, 199034, Russia
    5 Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny lane 29, bld 4, Moscow, 119017, Russia
    6 Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Agrarian-Technological Institute, Рeoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russia
    7 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31951/2658-3518-2022-A-4-1623

Keywords:

Kamchatka, Late Pleistocene, periglacial lake, tephrochronology, active tectonics

Abstract

A number of tephrochronologically correlated and dated sedimentary sections provide
evidence for the existence of a giant lake filled the Central Kamchatka depression 30-11 thousand years ago. The lake extent bounded by CKD borders is estimated to be ~10 000 km2 . This estimate makes this lake comparable in size to the famous Late Pleistocene glacial Lake Missoula.

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Published

2022-09-02

Issue

2022: №4 (SI:Paleo2022)

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