Organic Carbon in Ice Complex deposits - characteristics and origin of the Yedoma Suite in East Siberian Arctic lowlands

• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian, Grosse, Guido, Siegert, Christine, Overduin, Pier Paul, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; East Siberian Sea; Climate change; Global warming; Ice; laptev; permafrost; Subarctic; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/20604/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.32787

Ongoing climate change and global warming may change the Ice Complex formation of the Yedoma Suite from a long-term carbon sink to a major carbon source due to thawing of organic-rich sediments and the subsequent release of greenhouse gases.The origin of Late-Pleistocene ice-rich, fine-grained perma...