Sediment provenance of late Quaternary morainic, fluvial and loess‐like deposits in the southwestern Verkhoyansk Mountains (eastern Siberia) and implications for regional palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

• Published in: Geological Journal
• Main Authors: Popp, Steffen, Belolyubsky, Innokenty, Lehmkuhl, Frank, Prokopiev, Andrei, Siegert, Christine, Spektor, Valentin, Stauch, Georg, Diekmann, Bernhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Aldan; Verkhoyansk; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gj.1088; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgj.1088; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gj.1088

Abstract A provenance analysis of late Quaternary deposits from tributaries of the Aldan and Lena rivers in Central Yakutia (eastern Siberia) was carried out using analysis of heavy minerals and clay mineralogy. Cluster analysis revealed one assemblage that is characterized by relatively high propor...