High-resolution biomarker isotope and geochemical data for the ~4.2 ka sediment core from Lake Khar Nuur, Mongolian Altai

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The Late Holocene is a substantial cultural and economic transition in the eastern Eurasian Steppe and Altai Region, but paleoclimate conditions during this time remain unclear. Therefore, we established a high-resolution paleoclimate record from Lake Khar Nuur in the Mongolian Altai, spanning the last 4200 years. Lake Khar Nuur is a high-altitude lake with a small catchment located at 2,486 m a.s.l. (48°37'22.9"N, 88°56'42.5"E). We recovered the sediment core (that we abbreviate KN18) from the deepest part of the lake (49.4 m) in July 2018 using an Uwitec gravity corer. Within the sediment core KN18, a wide array of lake sediment proxies was measured. While total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen, bulk δ^13^C~TOC~, δ^15^N and biogenic silica were measured in 2 cm resolution, the elemental composition (log (Ca/Ti) ratio) was measured in 0.5 cm resolution. Additionally, compound-specific hydrogen isotopic composition of n-alkanes was measured in 1 cm resolution.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936512
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094299
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Provenance
Creator Bliedtner, Marcel ORCID logo; Struck, Julian ORCID logo; Strobel, Paul ORCID logo; Salazar, Gary ORCID logo; Szidat, Sönke ORCID logo; Bazarradnaa, Enkhtuya; Lloren, Ronald ORCID logo; Dubois, Nathalie ORCID logo; Zech, Roland
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 3 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (88.945 LON, 48.623 LAT)