Biological, chronological, geochemical and physical sedimentological data for the LP08 lake sediment record extracted from Lago Pato, Torres del Paine, Chile in 2007-2008

The dataset comprises of site data and multiproxy analyses of LP08 lake sediment cores extracted from Lago Pato, a small lake basin at -51.3003, -72.6786 and approx 33 m a.s.l., which is topographically separated from Lago del Toro in Torres del Paine (TdP). The data are used to constrain glacier dynamics and lake level change in the TdP and Ultima Esperanza region over the last approx 30,000 cal a BP (30 ka).

Data for the LP08 sediment record consist of downcore measurements of biology, chronology, geochemistry, sedimentology proxy data collected from the current depocentre between November 2007 to March 2008.

This project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and an UGent BOF bilateral collaboration project. RMcC was supported by Programa Regional R17A10002 and R20F0002 (PATSER) ANID. We gratefully acknowledge the University of Magallanes (UMAG) and the University of Santiago (Carolina Diaz) for assistance with fieldwork; the NERC/SUERC AMS Radiocarbon Facility for providing initial range-finder radiocarbon dates; the NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory (NIGL, now National Environmental Isotope Facility, NEIF, at the British Geological Survey) and Melanie Lang for stable carbon isotope analysis; Aberystwyth University (David Kelly), Durham University (Neil Tunstall and Christopher Longley) and Edinburgh University (Chris Hayward) for use of their core scanning and microprobe facilities and technical support.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01612

Date (Publication): 2022-03-01

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01612

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
British Antarctic Survey	Polar Data Centre	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Land Records > Glaciation
EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Land Records > Pollen
EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Land Records > Sediments
EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Ocean/Lake Records > Lake Levels

Use limitation: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Environment
Inland waters

Begin date: unknown

End date: unknown

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
http		GET DATA

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: Geochemistry

ITRAX-XRF Raw count per second (cps) data were analysed using the Q-spec software v8.6.0 (Cox Analytical), with MSE values minimised to optimise the fit of ''as measured'' spectra to a modelled spectrum. data are presented as percentages of the Total Scatter Normalised ratio sum (%sigmaTSN or, more simply, %TSN, which are equivalent to percentages of the cps sum, or percentage cps) to account for downcore variations in count rate, density, water and organic content. Data less than mean minus two-sigma kcps (mainly due to gaps in the core) and greater than MSE plus two-sigma (representing a poor fit between measured to modelled spectra) were filtered before analysis. ''Noisy'' elements were eliminated by comparing cps and using %TSN thresholds of more than 0.1% mean and more than 0.5% maximum, and by examining autocorrelation profiles for each element (Bishop, 2021). This left 12 ''measurable'' elements for the LP08 record (Si, S, K, Ca, Ti, Mn, Fe, Zn, Br, Rb, Sr, Zr, and inc., coh. scatter). Elements are presented as natural log (log n or Ln) ratios. Ti-normalised log n ratios are used to estimate changes in relation to the background bedrock input. Duplicates runs were undertaken on approx10% of the total core depth (LP08-1F at 2 mm and 200 microns).

Chronology

Radiocarbon ages were rounded to the nearest 10 calendar years (cal a BP) in file LP08 C14 data.csv and the results section and to the nearest 100 years (0.1 cal ka BP) in the discussion to reflect dating and age-depth modelling uncertainties.

Sedimentology

Carbon isotope delta13C data, values were calculated to the VPDB scale using a within-run laboratory standard calibrated against NBS-19 and NBS-22. Replicate analyses of sample material gave a precision of more or less 0.1 (per mil) for delta13Corg and 10% for C/N. Flux data (g cm a-2) were calculated from the product of dry mass accumulation rates (g cm a-1), dry bulk density (g cm-3), sedimentation rates (cm a-1) and proxy concentration measurements.

Geochemical XRF-Core scanning data were measured at 2 mm contiguous intervals and for LP08 Unit 6 (equivalent to mean ± 2-sigma: 4.5±7.0 years), at 200 &#956;m intervals for LP08 Unit 1 (1.3±4.2 years), with LP08 basal Unit 1 scanned at 100 &#956;m. Data from finely laminated glaciolacustrine sediments in Units 1-2 were measured at or smoothed to 200 &#956;m (from 100 &#956;m interval data) before analysis.