The Impact of Mass Movement Events on the Pelagic Sediment Record in Lake Elgygytgyn, NE Russia

• Main Authors: Melles, M., Juschus, O., Wennrich, V., Brigham-Grette, J., Gebhardt, Catalina
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Western Lake; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22102/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.34369

In autumn 2008 and spring 2009, an international team of scientists successfully conducted drilling operations in Lake Elgygytgyn, a 170 m deep lake of 12 km diameter located in a 3.6 Myr old meteorite impact crater in NE Siberia. In the central part of the lake, 312 m of lake sediments were penetra...