Late Quaternary mass movement events in Lake El′gygytgyn, North‐eastern Siberia

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: JUSCHUS, OLAF, MELLES, MARTIN, GEBHARDT, A. CATALINA, NIESSEN, FRANK
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Western Lake; Climate change; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01074.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-3091.2009.01074.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01074.x

Abstract Lake El′gygytgyn is situated in a 3·6 Myr old impact crater in North‐eastern Siberia. Its sedimentary record probably represents the most complete archive of Pliocene and Quaternary climate change in the terrestrial Arctic. In order to investigate the influence of gravitational sediment tra...