Depositional history of the North Taymyr ice‐marginal zone, Siberia—a landsystem approach

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Alexanderson, Helena, Adrielsson, Lena, Hjort, Christian, Möller, Per, Antonov, Oleg, Eriksson, Saskia, Pavlov, Maksim
• Other Authors: European Union ‘Eurasian Ice Sheets’, European Science Foundation's QUEEN., Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences., Swedish Environmental Agency., Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Ice Sheet; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.677; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.677; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.677

Abstract The sediment–landform associations of the northern Taymyr Peninsula in Arctic Siberia tell a tale of ice sheets advancing from the Kara Sea shelf and inundating the peninsula, probably three times during the Weichselian. In each case the ice sheet had a margin frozen to its bed and an inter...