A Regional Geochronological Study of Late Pleistocene Permafrost

The use of radiocarbon dating in geocryological investigations makes it possible to establish a chronology for permafrost-geological development during the Late Pleistocene. Both global and regional time scales for the formation of Late Pleistocene permafrost have been worked out over the past 15–20...

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Published in:Radiocarbon
Main Author: Kostyukevich, V. V.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1993
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Archeology
permafrost
Yakutia
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200060501
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033822200060501
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Summary:The use of radiocarbon dating in geocryological investigations makes it possible to establish a chronology for permafrost-geological development during the Late Pleistocene. Both global and regional time scales for the formation of Late Pleistocene permafrost have been worked out over the past 15–20 years at the Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I present here results from study areas of northwestern Siberia and of North, Central and West Yakutia.

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