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http://dx.doi.org/10.22807/KJMP.2021.34.1.15

Provenance of the Sediments of the Araon Mound in the Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean  

Jang, JeongKyu (K-water Research Institute, Korea Water Resources Corporation)
Koo, HyoJin (Department of Geology and Research Institute of Natural Science, Gyeongsang National University)
Cho, HyenGoo (Department of Geology and Research Institute of Natural Science, Gyeongsang National University)
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Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology / v.34, no.1, 2021 , pp. 15-29 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the Arctic Ocean, the distribution of sea ice and ice sheets changes as climate changes. Because the distribution of ice cover influences the mineral composition of marine sediments, studying marine sediments transported by sea ice or iceberg is very important to understand the global climate change. This study analyzes marine sediment samples collected from the Arctic Ocean and infers the provenance of the sediments to reconstruct the paleoenvironment changes of the western Arctic. The analyzed samples include four gravity cores collected from the Araon mound in the Chukchi Plateau and one gravity core collected from the slope between the Araon mounds. The core sediments were brown, gray, and greenish gray, each of which corresponds to the characteristic color of sediments deposited during the interglacial/glacial cycle in the western Arctic Ocean. We divide the core sediments into three units based on the analysis of bulk mineral composition, clay mineral composition, and Ice Rafted Debris (IRD) as well as comparison with previous study results. Unit 3 sediments, deposited during the last glacial maximum, were transported by sea ice and currents after the sediments of the Kolyma and Indigirka Rivers were deposited on the continental shelf of the East Siberian Sea. Unit 2 sediments, deposited during the deglacial period, were from the Kolyma and Indigirka Rivers flowing into the East Siberian Sea as well as from the Mackenzie River and the Canadian Archipelago flowing into the Beaufort Sea. Unit 2 sediments also contained an extensive amount of IRD, which originated from the melted Laurentide Ice Sheet. During the interglacial stage, fine-grained sediments of Unit 1 were transported by sea ice and currents from Northern Canada and the East Siberian Sea, but coarse-grained sediments were derived by sea ice from the Canadian Archipelago.
Keywords
Chukchi Sea; Araon mound; Clay mineral composition; Bulk mineral composition; Sediment Provenance; Ice Rafted Debris;
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