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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2079-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2079-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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14 Apr 2022
Research article |
| 14 Apr 2022
| 14 Apr 2022
Organic matter characteristics of a rapidly eroding permafrost cliff in NE Siberia (Lena Delta, Laptev Sea region)
Charlotte Haugk
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
now at: Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, 11418, Sweden
Loeka L. Jongejans
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Kai Mangelsdorf
Organic Geochemistry Section, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German
Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Matthias Fuchs
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Olga Ogneva
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Marine Geochemistry Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz
Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Juri Palmtag
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
now at: Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 11418, Sweden
Gesine Mollenhauer
Marine Geochemistry Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz
Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Paul J. Mann
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
P. Paul Overduin
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Guido Grosse
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Tina Sanders
Institute of Carbon Cycles, Helmholtz Centre Hereon, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Robyn E. Tuerena
Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, PA37 1QA, UK
Lutz Schirrmeister
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Sebastian Wetterich
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
now at: Institute of Geography, Technische Universität Dresden,
01069 Dresden, Germany
Alexander Kizyakov
Cryolithology and Glaciology Department, Faculty of Geography,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
Cornelia Karger
Organic Geochemistry Section, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German
Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Permafrost Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Data sets
Organic matter characteristics using lipid biomarker analysis of a rapidly eroding permafrost cliff Charlotte Haugk, Loeka Laura Jongejans, Kai Mangelsdorf, Matthias Fuchs, Olga Ogneva, Juri Palmtag, Gesine Mollenhauer, Paul James Mann, Pier Paul Overduin, Guido Grosse, Tina Sanders, Robyn Tuerena, Lutz Schirrmeister, Sebastian Wetterich, Alexander Kizyakov, and Jens Strauss https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935672
Cryolithology of the Sobo-Sise Yedoma cliff (eastern Lena Delta) Sebastian Wetterich, Hanno Meyer, Michael Fritz, Thomas Opel, and Lutz Schirrmeister https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.919470
Short summary
Buried animal and plant remains (carbon) from the last ice age were freeze-locked in permafrost. At an extremely fast eroding permafrost cliff in the Lena Delta (Siberia), we found this formerly frozen carbon well preserved. Our results show that ongoing degradation releases substantial amounts of this carbon, making it available for future carbon emissions. This mobilisation at the studied cliff and also similarly eroding sites bear the potential to affect rivers and oceans negatively.
Buried animal and plant remains (carbon) from the last ice age were freeze-locked in permafrost....
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