Lake El’gygytgyn expedition

Blob · #1 (**permalink**) 16-November-2006, 09:25 PM

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An international team of scientists led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received $3.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund an expedition to a polar lake in Siberia, which should yield data that will provide the most detailed record of past Arctic climate to date.
The research team’s destination is Lake El’gygytgyn, a lake of roughly nine miles across that was formed when a meteorite hurtled into northeastern Siberia around 3.5 ± 0.5 million years old, (Pliocene). Unlike much of the Arctic, this lake was never covered by glaciers or ice sheets and thus has received a steady accumulation of sediment since the time of impact. Brigham-Grette and her team will collect deep cores of this sediment—cylindrical columns of dense muck that should provide a detailed narrative of the past climate of the Arctic.

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Sediment piston cores from Lake El'gygytgyn, a 3.6 million year old meteorite impact crater in northeastern Siberia, have been analysed to extract a multi-proxy millennial-scale climate record extending to nearly 250 ka, with distinct fluctuations in sedimentological, physical, biochemical, and palaeoecological parameters.

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Position: 67.48329 °N, 172.12775 °E

Blob · #2 (**permalink**) 17-November-2006, 08:45 PM

A team of scientists will embark on an expedition to a polar lake in Siberia, which should yield data that will provide the most detailed record of past Arctic climate to date.

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Squink · #3 (**permalink**) 18-November-2006, 01:57 AM

That's an interesting place. This travelogue from an earlier expedition includes many photos:
Lake El'gygtygn 2000

The lake looks like a good place to read some Lovecraft.

BigDon · #4 (**permalink**) 18-November-2006, 09:11 AM

Always like a good travalogue, especialy to places I know I'll never get to.

JESMKS · #5 (**permalink**) 18-November-2006, 07:18 PM

Here is an interesting website relating to drilling in lakes around the world

http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/mar04/feature_GLAD.html

BigDon · #6 (**permalink**) 18-November-2006, 10:36 PM

You know, at first I thought Blob was trying to type out the word "Egypt" while having a seisure.

Doodler · #7 (**permalink**) 20-November-2006, 07:47 PM

I was going to ask how to pronounce that without sounding like a stuttering hillbilly...

Ilya · #8 (**permalink**) 22-November-2006, 01:01 PM

Actually, it can not be pronounced correctly with only sounds that exist in English language. The repeating "y" letter is the closest -- but not very close, -- approximation of a vowel represented in Russian language as "ы". It is the least-used vowel in Russian, but very common in Chukcha language, where the lake's name comes from. To make this sound, position your mouth as to say "ee", but instead of holding your tongue near teeth, pull it as far back as possible. The result is a kind of caveman grunt.

Squink · #9 (**permalink**) 22-November-2006, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Ilya

position your mouth as to say "ee", but instead of holding your tongue near teeth, pull it as far back as possible.

Thanks, now I have sprained my tongue. No Turkgygy for me!

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