Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation of Yedoma Silt (Ice Complex) Deposition as Cold‐Climate Loess, Duvanny Yar, Northeast Siberia

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Murton, Julian B., Goslar, Tomasz, Edwards, Mary E., Bateman, Mark D., Danilov, Petr P., Savvinov, Grigoriy N., Gubin, Stanislav V., Ghaleb, Bassam, Haile, James, Kanevskiy, Mikhail, Lozhkin, Anatoly V., Lupachev, Alexei V., Murton, Della K., Shur, Yuri, Tikhonov, Alexei, Vasil'chuk, Alla C., Vasil'chuk, Yurij K., Wolfe, Stephen A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Kolyma; Yar; Ice; kolyma river; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Yakutia; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1843; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fppp.1843; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.1843

Abstract Uncertainty about the geological processes that deposited syngenetically frozen ice‐rich silt ( yedoma ) across hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in central and northern Siberia fundamentally limits our understanding of the Pleistocene geology and palaeoecology of western Beringia,...