TY - JOUR N2 - Eighteen sediment samples from a 36 cm long sediment core retrieved from a proglacial lake (namely P 11) situated in the Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica, were analysed for the study of quartz grain morphology and microtexture, along with sand percentage, to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental changes in the lake during the Holocene. The age of the core ranges from 3.3 ka BP to 13.9 ka BP. The quartz grain morphology and microtexture reveal significant evidences of glacial transport along with some eolian and aqueous activities. On the basis of predominance of these signatures and the zonation from CONISS Cluster Analysis on the percentages of characteristic grain morphology and microtextures, the entire core has been subdivided into three major zones. From the paleoenvironmental perspective, it can be concluded that there is an onset of interglacial period at the advent of Holocene (12.3 ka BP), which reigned until 5.3 ka BP and thereafter, again a glacial environment prevailed until 3.3 ka BP with some variations in-between. The results indicate probable alternative colder and less colder phases in the study area, which are also well supported by the respective sand percentages in the sediments. © 2017 Polish Academy of Sciences 2017. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/100865/PDF/Polish%20Polar%201-17%201-A.Mazumder%20i%20in.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/100865 PY - 2017 IS - No 1 EP - 19 KW - Antarctica KW - CONISS Cluster Analysis KW - Dronning Maud Land Proglacial lake KW - Holocene KW - microtexture KW - Quartz grains KW - sand percentage A1 - Mazumder, Abhijit A1 - Pawan GOVIL A1 - Kar, Ratan A1 - Gayathri, Narath Meethal A1 - RAGHURAM PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 38 DA - 01.03.2017 T1 - Paleoenvironments of a proglacial lake in Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica: Insights from quartz grain microtextures SP - 1 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/100865 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -