Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-159-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-159-2023
Research article
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23 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 23 Jan 2023

Deglacial records of terrigenous organic matter accumulation off the Yukon and Amur rivers based on lignin phenols and long-chain n-alkanes

Mengli Cao, Jens Hefter, Ralf Tiedemann, Lester Lembke-Jene, Vera D. Meyer, and Gesine Mollenhauer

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Lignin phenols contents and sea surface temperatures in sediment cores from the Bering and Okhotsk Seas M. Cao, J. Hefter, R. Tiedemann, L. Lembke-Jene, V. D. Meyer, and G. Mollenhauer https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.948376

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We use sediment records of lignin to reconstruct deglacial vegetation change and permafrost mobilization, which occurred earlier in the Yukon than in the Amur river basin. Sea ice extent or surface temperatures of adjacent oceans might have had a strong influence on the timing of permafrost mobilization. In contrast to previous evidence, our records imply that during glacial peaks of permafrost decomposition, lipids and lignin might have been delivered to the ocean by identical processes.