The Full-Glacial Environment of the Northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Reconstructed from the 21,500-Year-Old Kitluk Paleosol

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Höfle, Claudia, Edwards, Mary E., Hopkins, David M., Mann, Daniel H., Ping, Chien-Lu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2000
• Subjects: Arctic; Chukchi Shelf; Chukchi; Ice; north slope; permafrost; polar desert; Seward Peninsula; Tundra; wedge*; Yakutia; Alaska; Beringia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.1999.2097; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589499920975?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589499920975?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003358940003060X

Abstract Paleoenvironmental conditions are reconstructed from soils buried under volcanic ash ca. 21,500 years ago on the Seward Peninsula. Soil development was minimal, reflecting the continuous regional deposition of loess, which originated from river floodplains and the exposed Chukchi shelf. Cry...