Sand-based storminess proxies from a coastal peatland Hill Top Bog, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

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Storminess in northern Europe varies over annual and decadal timescales, however little is known about how storminess varies over centennial and millennial timescales. In this project two storminess reconstructions were developed from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.Peat cores were sampled using a Russian corer from a peatbog Hill Top Bog (57°10'5''N; 7°20'52W). Samples of equal volume (5 cm3) from 1 cm contiguous intervals along the core were processed using the loss-on-ignition method (Heiri et al. 2001), leaving the ignition residue, which was sieved to establish the weight of the 120-180 and >180 micron sand fractions. The ignition residue and sand fractions reflect the past amount of sand deposition, which can be used as a proxies for storminess. Chronological constraints were provided by AMS radiocarbon dates; with 8 dates on the Hill Top Bog core. The reconstruction from Hill Top Bog spans the period 3940-0 cal yrs BP.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930982
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.045
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930981
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008119611481
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.930982
Provenance
Creator Orme, Lisa C ORCID logo; Reinhardt, Liam; Jones, Richard T; Charman, Dan J ORCID logo; Barkwith, Andrew ORCID logo; Ellis, Michael A ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 1286 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-7.348 LON, 57.168 LAT); Outer Hebrides, Scotland