Sources and characteristics of terrestrial carbon in Holocene-scale sediments of the East Siberian Sea

Keskitalo, Kirsi; Tesi, Tommaso; Bröder, Lisa; Andersson, August; Pearce, Christof; Sköld, Martin; Semiletov, Igor P.; Dudarev, Oleg V.; Gustafsson, Örjan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1213-2017

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22 Sep 2017

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Sources and characteristics of terrestrial carbon in Holocene-scale sediments of the East Siberian Sea

Kirsi Keskitalo, Tommaso Tesi, Lisa Bröder, August Andersson, Christof Pearce, Martin Sköld, Igor P. Semiletov, Oleg V. Dudarev, and Örjan Gustafsson

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RC1: 'Holocene carbon flux manuscript', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to the first reviewer', Kirsi Keskitalo, 08 Aug 2017
RC2: 'review', Thomas Cronin, 16 Jun 2017
RC3: 'review of Keskitalo et al 2017, "Sources and characteristics of terrestrial carbon in Holocene scale sediments of the East Siberian Sea"', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Jun 2017
- AC4: 'Reply to the third reviewer', Kirsi Keskitalo, 08 Aug 2017
AC2: 'Reply to Thomas Cronin', Kirsi Keskitalo, 08 Aug 2017
AC3: 'Reply to Thomas Cronin', Kirsi Keskitalo, 08 Aug 2017

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ED: Publish as is (16 Aug 2017) by Thomas M. Cronin

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In this study we investigate land-to-ocean transfer and the fate of permafrost carbon in the East Siberian Sea from the early Holocene until the present day. Our results suggest that there was a high input of terrestrial organic carbon to the East Siberian Sea during the last glacial–interglacial period caused by permafrost destabilisation. This material was mainly characterised as relict Pleistocene permafrost deposited via coastal erosion as a result of the sea level rise.