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| Subject area | Geology |
| More specific subject area | Quaternary palaeo-environmental reconstruction |
| Type of data | Photo documentation of sediment successions. Marine and terrestrial fauna and flora lists from the sediments. Lists of Optically Stimulated Luminescence) (OSL), Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), AMS radiocarbon (14C) and Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide (TCN) exposure ages. Tables and figures. |
| How data was acquired | The logging and photographing of excavated sedimentary successions (see logs in[1]), as well as sampling for palaeontological analyses and dating (all sampling points shown in sediment logs in ([1]), took place during boat cruises along the Bol'shaya Balaknya River and the Luktakh–Upper Taimyra–Logata river systems on the Taimyr Peninsula, NW Siberia, in 2010 and 2012. Field sampling procedures are described in text, as well as laboratory procedures. |
| Data format | Raw and analysed |
| Experimental factors | Sediment successions in river-cut bluffs and solifluction scars were cleaned in vertical sections close to the permafrost table and logged to their lithofacies (Table 1), and sampled for palaeontological analysis (Table 2, Table 3, Table 4) and dating (14C, ESR, OSL;Table 5, Table 6, Table 7). Erratic boulders on Ice Marginal Zones were sampled for TCN dating (Table 8, Table 9, Table 10). |
| Experimental features | Sediment succession logging provide basis for palaeoenvironmental interpretation for discerned sediment units at the specific site and retrieved chronological data (14C, ESR, OSL, TCN ages) form a base for temporal environmental reconstructions on a regional scale. |
| Data source location | Taimyr Peninsula, northwest Siberia, Russia, c. between coordinates N71˚5’ -74˚15′ and E92˚15′-106˚0’ (seeFig. 1) |
| Data accessibility | Data is within this article |
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