Climatic change in the Russian Altai, southern Siberia, based on palynological and geomorphological results, with implications for climatic teleconnections and human history since the middle Holocene

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Schlütz ◽  
Frank Lehmkuhl
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Human History ◽  
Southern Siberia ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
Russian Altai

scholarly journals Climatically Driven Holocene Glacier Advances in the Russian Altai Based on Radiocarbon and OSL Dating and Tree Ring Analysis

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Anna Agatova ◽  
Roman Nepop ◽  
Andrey Nazarov ◽  
Ivan Ovchinnikov ◽  
Piotr Moska
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Osl Dating ◽  
Pleistocene Glaciation ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
Complete Degradation ◽  
Ring Analysis ◽  
Russian Altai

Analysis of new chronological data, including 55 radiocarbon, 1 OSL, and 8 dendrochronological dates, obtained in the upper reaches of trough valleys within the Katun, North Chuya, South Chuya, and Chikhachev ranges, together with the 55 previously published ones, specifies climatically driven glacier dynamic in the Russian Altai. Available data refute the traditional concept of the Russian Altai Holocene glaciations as a consecutive retreat of the Late Pleistocene glaciation. Considerable and prolonged warming in the Early Holocene started no later than 11.3–11.4 cal kBP. It caused significant shrinking or even complete degradation of alpine glaciers and regeneration of forest vegetation 300–400 m above the modern upper timber limit. Stadial advances occurred in the middle of the Holocene (4.9–4.2 cal kBP), during the Historical (2.3–1.7 cal kBP), and the Aktru (LIA thirteenth–nineteenth century) stages. New radiocarbon ages of fossil soils limited glaciers expansion in the Middle Holocene by the size of the Historical moraine. Lesser glacial activity between 5 and 4 cal kBP is also supported by rapid reforestation in the heads of trough valleys. Glaciers advance within the Russian Altai, accompanied by accumulation of the Akkem moraine, could have occurred at the end of the Late Pleistocene.

scholarly journals New Marine Geoheritage from the Russian Altai

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Jaroslav M. Gutak ◽  
Dmitry A. Ruban ◽  
Natalia N. Yashalova
Keyword(s):  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Submarine Volcano ◽  
Southern Siberia ◽  
Altai Region ◽  
Geological Features ◽  
Marginal Sea ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Town ◽  
Mining Heritage ◽  
Russian Altai

Marine geoheritage comprises unique geological features of modern and ancient seas and oceans. The Russian Altai (southern Siberia) is a vast and geologically rich area, which was covered by a marginal sea of the Panthalassa Ocean in the Devonian. New geosites representing shallow- and deep-marine depositional environments and palaeoecosystems of submarine volcano slopes are proposed, namely, Melnichnye Sopki and Zavodskie Sopki. They are located near the town of Zmeinogorsk (Altai Region of the Russian Federation). These pieces of marine geoheritage are valuable on an international scale. Special geoconservation procedures are recommended to manage the proposed geosites efficiently. They can be included in a geopark, which is reasonable to create due to the concentration of geological and mining heritage in the study area.

scholarly journals The Impact of Holocene Climate on the Development of Prehistoric Societies in Southern Siberia

Radiocarbon ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1557-1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Kulkova ◽  
Sergey Krasnienko
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Southern Siberia ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
Early And Middle Holocene ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
The Impact

Geochemical data of 10Be, 14C, δ18O obtained from natural archives (tree rings, ice sheets, varves, corals) indicates that the climate during the Holocene was not stable. The cosmogenic isotope fluctuations are bound by the periodicity on solar activity and climatic changes. The sharpest and most abrupt climatic deteriorations are registered in the Early and Middle Holocene at 8200, 5800, 5400, 4300, and 2800 cal BP. These events are characterized by cold conditions. The impact of climate on human communities in steppe depressions in southern Siberia (Nazarovo, Minusinsk, and Turano-Uyuk) was noticeable. The differences of local landscape-climatic conditions in these depressions were connected with global climatic changes to determine the processes of occupation, development, and migrations of ancient societies during the Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. The chronology of archaeological cultures was also correlated with the local and global climatic changes during the Early and Middle Holocene in southern Siberia. Here, we generalize the literature data about Holocene climatic changes and archaeological cultures in the southern Siberia region.

Practising archaeology at a time of climatic catastrophe

Antiquity ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (318) ◽  
pp. 1093-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Human History ◽  
African Society ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Holocene Climatic Optimum ◽  
Established Fact ◽  
The Moment

The term 'catastrophe' in my title is not chosen idly, but reflects the now well-established fact that Earth is experiencing (anthropogenic) climate change at a rate and scale unparalleled in human history (IPCC 2007a). Dramatic events such as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 are so unexpected that one retains a clear memory of precisely when and where one learned of them. Regrettably, climate change is subtler, its effects slower, its consequences less immediately obvious. Yet something of the same is true. In my own case, I vividly recall the moment when I first grasped what it might mean. At the 1993 Kimberley meeting of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research (SASQUA), a presenter commented that her palaeoenvironmental research, which reached back through the Holocene, might, perhaps, be relevant to modelling future climatic change. Back came the comment from another participant that the Holocene climatic 'optimum' was far from relevant; a bestcase analogue might instead be the conditions prevailing during the Pliocene, 5.3-1.8 million years ago.

High species richness in hemiboreal forests of the northern Russian Altai, southern Siberia

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Chytrý ◽  
Nikolai Ermakov ◽  
Jiří Danihelka ◽  
Michal Hájek ◽  
Petra Hájková ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Southern Siberia ◽  
High Species Richness ◽  
Russian Altai
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