Late interglacial (Eemian) records from ice wedge casts along the Dmitry Laptev Strait, NE Siberia

• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian, Andreev, Andrei, Kienast, F., Tumskoy, V., Kunitsky, V.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; East Siberian Sea; Ice; laptev; Laptev Sea; permafrost; Thermokarst; wedge*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/20394/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.32489

Ice wedge casts that formed due to thawing of ice wedges are significant signs of past warm periods in Arctic periglacial regions. Such permafrost degradation structures are numerous and very well exposed on both coasts of the Dmitry Laptev Strait, which connects the Laptev Sea with the East Siberia...