A Regional Geochronological Study of Late Pleistocene Permafrost

• 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

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.