[meteorite-list] El'gygytgyn Impact Crater Yields 3.6 Million Year-Long Paleoclimate Record

From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 9:07:13 -0500
Message-ID: <20101106100713.1KDDR.2428909.imail_at_eastrmwml34>

Arctic Lake Yields Planet?s Most Continuous Record
of Ancient Climate by Alexandra Witze, Science News
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/el-gygytgyn-climate-core/
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/64958/title/Arctic_lake_yields_climate_record

Arctic lake offers up climate record, UPI.com, Nov 3, 2010?
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/11/03/Arctic-lake-offers-up-climate-record/UPI-99031288827205/

The talk is:

Brigham-Grette, J., and others, 2010, First collaborative
results from Lake El?gygytgyn crater: proxies of change
since 3.6 Ma, NE Russian Arctic. Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 42, no. 5, p. 167.
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_182572.htm
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/session_26189.htm

In addition, there is:

Koeberl, C., and L. Pittarello, 2010, El?gygytgyn, an impact
crater in siliceous volcanic rocks: preliminary results from
the IGCP drilling project. Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs. vol. 42, no. 5, p. 171
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_179293.htm

Session No. 69, Impact Cratering: From the Lab to the Field;
from the Earth to the Planets, 2010 GSA Denver Annual Meeting
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/session_26355.htm

Other Web Pages:

El'gygytgyn Impact Crater and Elgygytgyn Lake
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/elgygytgyn.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgygytgyn_Lake

El'gygytgyn Crater, Russian Far East
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36151

El'gygytgyn Drilling Project
http://www.geo.umass.edu/lake_e/index.html

Arctic Record of the Last 250 ka from El'gygytgyn Crater
Journal of Paleolimnology, Volume 37, Number 1
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0921-2728/37/1/

Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space
Betsy Mason, Wired News,
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/impactcraters/all/1

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sat 06 Nov 2010 10:07:13 AM PDT