Luminescence signals from modern sediments in a glaciated bay,NW Svalbard |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway;2. Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden;3. Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Risø DTU, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark;1. Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Risø Campus, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark;2. Center for Nuclear Technologies, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark;3. Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Section 3: Geochronology and Isotope Hydrology, Stilleweg 2, Hannover 30655, Germany;4. Neotectonics Research Group, Geoscientific Research Department, Tono Geoscience Center, Sector of Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 959-31 Izumicho-Jorinji, Toki, Gifu 509-5102, Japan;5. Graduated School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, 1677-1 Yoshida, Yamaguchi 753-8512, Japan;6. Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, 1-1 Minamiosawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan;1. Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, DTU Risø Campus, Roskilde 4000, Denmark;2. Center for Nuclear Technologies, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Risø Campus, Roskilde 4000, Denmark;3. Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhe Israel Street, Jerusalem 95501, Israel;4. Dead Sea-Arava Science Center, Patio 655, Eilat 88133, Israel;1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA;2. Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating & Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands;3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA;4. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, USA;5. Department of Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA;1. Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands;2. Group for Rural Hydrology and Hydraulics, Department of Agronomy, University of Cordoba, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Landforming processes are highly active in the Arctic, and luminescence dating can be used to establish a chronological framework for these processes. For example, luminescence ages of raised littoral and marine deposits provide the age control for many reconstructions of Pleistocene events in the Arctic. Due to the nature of the depositional environment (e.g. short transport distance, turbid water, long polar night) these types of sediment may not be completely zeroed at the time of deposition. To test the significance of incomplete bleaching in this type of environment, surface sediments were sampled along a transect from the margin of a glacier out into a nearby bay on NW Svalbard. The water in the bay is very turbid (secchi depth 0.1 m), but there is significant reworking by waves along the shores.Quartz optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and feldspar infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) were measured using sand-sized grains. For quartz OSL and feldspar IRSL (50 °C) the ice-proximal sample showed relatively high doses (～12 Gy) while nearby beach sand and shallow-marine deposits, as well as ice-distal sandur sediments, had much lower doses: most OSL doses were consistent with zero, while IRSL (50 °C) ranged from 0.5 to 6.5 Gy. Post-IR IRSL (290 °C) doses were overall much higher (～20–55 Gy), which partly is due to a significant (～12 Gy) unbleachable residual, and partly due to slower bleaching rates than for the IRSL (50 °C) signal.In this Arctic environment it appears that bleaching is limited in the first ～100 m of meltwater transport from the glacier margin, but for material transported at least 3 km bleaching of OSL and IRSL (50 °C) signals is more or less complete. Given the very limited light penetration through the seawater in the bay, any bleaching must have occurred during fluvial/subaerial transport to the bay or by wave-reworking on the beach. Apart from the ice-proximal glacifluvial sediments, residual apparent doses recorded by quartz OSL and feldspar IRSL (50 °C) are negligible for the luminescence dating of Pleistocene-aged deposits of ice-distal, littoral and shallow-marine origin. |
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