Was there a marine transgression on the Laptev Sea Shelf during the last interglacial? Evidence of continental climate in the Siberian Arctic by terrestrial plant macrofossils

• Main Authors: Kienast, Frank, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Grosse, Guido, Tarasov, P., Siegert, Christine, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; Laptev Sea; Gakkel Ridge; Global warming; Ice; laptev; lena river; permafrost; Subarctic; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/14818/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.25044

Terrestrial plant macrofossils from permafrost deposits at the Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island, New Siberian Archipelago, Arctic Siberia, revealed the existence of subarctic forest tundra with dominating Alnus fruticosa, Betula fruticosa, B. nana, and Ledum palustre during the last interglacial (Fig...