Chronological, geochemical and sedimentological data from a lake sediment record extracted from Lake L15 (GPS Lake) on Potter Peninsula, South Shetland Islands in 2011

The dataset comprises of lake site photos, data and multiproxy data from Lake L15 (aka GPS Lake), a small lake basin at 62.24057 S, 58.6776 W on Potter Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands. The data have been used to constrain deglaciation and glacier dynamics on Potter Peninsula.

Data for the Lake L15 (GPS Lake) sediment record consist of downcore measurements of chronology, geochemistry, and sedimentology proxy data collected from the depocentre in November 2011.

Data collected in this study were funded by: Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA), the Direccion Nacional del Antartico/Instituto Antartico Argentino (DNA/IAA) in the framework of the Project PICTA, 2011 - 0102, IAA "Geomorfologia y Geologia Glaciar del Archipielago James Ross e Islas Shetland del Sur, Sector Norte de la Peninsula Antartica"; the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) research program Polar regions and Coasts in a changing Earth System (PACES II); IMCONet (FP7 IRSES, action no. 318718); the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC/BAS-CGS Grant no.81); the NERC/BAS science programmes CACHE-PEP: Natural climate variability - extending the Americas palaeoclimate transect through the Antarctic Peninsula to the pole and GRADES-QWAD: Quaternary West Antarctic Deglaciations. We thank the crews of the Argentine research station "Carlini" and the adjoined German Dallmann-Labor (AWI) Laboratory, the Uruguayan research station "Artigas", the Russian Bellingshausen Station, the Chinese Great Wall Station, Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, the Brazilian Navy Almirante Maximiano, the UK Navy HMS Endurance and NERC/BAS James Clark Ross for logistical support during the 2006, 2011, 2014 and 2015 field seasons.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01685

Date (Publication): 2023-08-03

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01685

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre	Roberts, S., Pearson, E., Czalbowski, T., Davies, S., Grosjean, M., Arcusa, S., & Perren, B.	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 > Radiocarbon
EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Land Records > Stratigraphic Sequence
EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Geomorphology > Glacial Landforms/Processes

BAS Free-text keywords

Deglaciation
South Shetland Islands
geomorphological mapping
glacial readvance
radiocarbon dating
stratigraphy

Use limitation: Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Data released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2011-11-01

End date: 2011-11-30

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: Chronology

Pb-210 age estimates were derived using the constant rate of supply (CRS) method (Appleby and Oldfield, 1978) and incorporated into Bayesian age-depth models. The prerequisite for the CRS model was not fulfilled because the flux of Pb-210 has changed through time and is not constant, but Pb-210 data are consistent with the radiocarbon ages that show sediment between 6 and 6.5 cm dates to 620 plus-minus 80 a cal BP, and 3-3.5 cm and 0-0.5 cm depth were deposited in the ''post-bomb'' (post-1950 CE) era, most likely between -40 - -44 cal yr BP (1990-1994 CE) The Cs-137 data are inconsistent with the Pb-210 CRS age model and it is possible that the steep increase in Cs-137 in the upper 2 cm relates to a Cs-137 ''soil reservoir'', which is leaching Cs-137 into the lake from snow or lake-ice melting.

Geochemistry and Sedimentology

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 (percent sigma TSN or, more simply, percent TSN, which are equivalent to percentages of the cps sum, or percent 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 percent TSN thresholds of more than 0.1 percent mean and more than 0.5 percent maximum, and by examining autocorrelation profiles for each element. Elements are presented as natural log (log n or Ln) ratios.