Modern tundra landscapes of the Kolyma Lowland and their evolution in the Holocene

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Veremeeva, Alexandra, Gubin, Stanislav
• Other Authors: Russian Fund for Basic Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Thermokarst; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.674; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fppp.674; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.674

Abstract The different tundra landscapes of the Kolyma Lowland, northern Siberia are described, focusing on landscape typology, digital mapping and the calculation of areas occupied by different landscape complexes. The genesis, age and evolution of ‘yedoma’ sediments and associated alas (thermokars...