Late Neopleistocene and Holocene sedimentation in the glacial Lake Sosednee, Magadan region: petromagnetic evidence of environmental changes

The results of research of the mountain glacial Lake Sosednee, which was formed at the end of the late Pleistocene approximately 22 ka BP, are presents. Sediments from four cores were studied, and sediment correlation was carried out. The petrochemical composition of tephra was obtained, the radiocarbon age of lake and bog sediments, and tephra was determined. The age-depths model for the lake sediments was constructed. Based on the results of rock magnetic and hysteresis characteristics, seven zones were identified in the lake sediments, reflecting various sedimentation conditions – detrital, chemogenic, and biogenic. Detrital and authigenic iron-bearing minerals were identified. They include magnetites, titanomagnetites, and sulfides of pyrite, greigite, and pyrrhotite compositions. The transitional interval from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene was characterized in detail, where a shift in biotic and abiotic components of the natural environment occurred. Based on hysteresis and magnetic susceptibility data, the Younger Dryas deposits were identified. Biogenic accumulation of silica and organic material dominated during the Holocene under warm climate conditions.

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