Radiocarbon Dates and Late-Quaternary Stratigraphy from Mamontova Gora, Unglaciated Central Yakutia, Siberia, U.S.S.R.

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Péwé, Troy L., Journaux, André, Stuckenrath, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1977
• Subjects: Aldan; Gora; Péwé; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(77)90056-4; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589477900564?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589477900564?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400028611

A fine exposure of perennially frozen ice-rich silt and associated flora and vertebrate fauna of late-Quaternary age exists at Mamontova Gora along the Aldan River in central Yakutia, Siberia, U.S.S.R. The silt deposit caps a 50-m-high terrace and consists of three units. An upper layer 1–2 m thick...