Structure, Composition, and Origin of the Yedoma Suite around the Laptev Sea

• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian, Grosse, Guido, Siegert, Christine, Kunitsky, V.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: East Siberian Sea; Ice; laptev; Laptev Sea; lena river; permafrost; wedge*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17043/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.26864

Yedoma, consisting of so-called Late Pleistocene Ice Complex deposits, is a special type of permafrost formation widely distributed in Northeast Siberia, especially in the coastal lowlands of the Laptev and the East Siberian Sea as well as on the New Siberian Archipelago. Its most impressive charact...