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Speleothem chronology in Ledyanaya Lenskaya and Botovskaya caves used in publication "Paleoclimate evidence of vulnerable permafrost during times of low sea-ice" By Vaks, A. et al.(2020)

Dataset title Speleothem chronology in Ledyanaya Lenskaya and Botovskaya caves used in publication "Paleoclimate evidence of vulnerable permafrost during times of low sea-ice" By Vaks, A. et al.(2020)
Dataset creators A.Vaks, Geological Survey of Israel
A.J.Mason, University of Oxford
S.F.M.Breitenbach, Northumbria University
A.M.Kononov, Institute of Earth’s Crust, Russian Academy of Sciences
A.V.Osinzev, Speleoclub Arabica, Irkutsk, Russia
M.Rosensaft, Geological Survey of Israel
A.Borshevsky, Geological Survey of Israel
O.S.Gutareva, Institute of Earth’s Crust, Russian Academy of Sciences
G.M.Henderson, University of Oxford
Dataset theme Geoscientific Information
Dataset abstract

The tables describe U-series chronology of speleothems in Ledyanaya Lenskaya and Botovskaya caves used in the manuscript "Paleoclimate evidence of vulnerable permafrost during times of low sea ice" by Vaks et al. 2020, Nature 577, 7789, 221–225. The information included in the tables is listed as following:

Table 1: Table 1a includes U–Pb data from Ledyanaya Lenskaya and Botovskaya caves; Table 1b includes common Pb estimates for Ledyanaya Lenskaya and Botovskaya caves.

Table 2: U–Th chronology of speleothems from Botovskaya Cave.

The data shows when speleothems were growing in Ledyanaya Lenskaya Cave during the last 1.5 Ma and in Botovskaya Cave during the last 0.7 Ma. Speleothems grow when water seeps from the surface into the caves. If the soil and rock above the cave is permanently frozen, water will not reach the cave and speleothems will not grow. Together with the data from Vaks et al (2013) "Speleothems Reveal 500,000-Year History of Siberian Permafrost", Science 340, 6129, p 183–186, these speleothem deposition periods show when the permafrost above the two caves was discontinuous or absent.

Published Paper: Vaks, A., Mason, A. J. Breitenbach, S. F. M., Kononov, A. M., Osinzev, A. V., Rosensaft, M., Borshevsky, A., Gutareva, O. S., Henderson, G. M. Palaeoclimate evidence of vulnerable permafrost during times of low sea ice. Nature 577, 7789, 221–225 (2020) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1880-1

Dataset content dates 30/08/2009 - 01/05/2018
Dataset spatial coverage Ledyanaya Lenskaya Cave, Siberia, Russia: 60°22'15.60"N – 116°56'47.30"E
Botovskaya Cave, Siberia, Russia: 55°17'59.03"N – 105°19'46.02"E
Dataset supply format MS Excel
Dataset language English-United Kingdom
Dataset discovery metadata record Yet to be published
Dataset publisher British Geological Survey
Dataset publication date 18th September 2019
Dataset digital object identifier(DOI) 10.5285/d56addfe-b7b8-4b70-9617-fadc1f7666b4
Dataset citation text Vaks, A., Mason, A. J., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Kononov, A. M., Osinzev, A. V., Rosensaft, M., Borshevsky, A., Gutareva, O. S., Henderson, G. M. (2019): Speleothem chronology in Ledyanaya Lenskaya and Botovskaya caves used in publication "Paleoclimate evidence of vulnerable permafrost during times of low sea–ice" By Vaks, A. et al. (2020). British Geological Survey. (Dataset). https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d56addfe-b7b8-4b70-9617-fadc1f7666b4
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