Permafrost properties of the Yedoma key site at Duvanny Yar (Kolyma lowland, East Siberia)

• Main Authors: Strauss, Jens, Wetterich, Sebastian, Schirrmeister, Lutz
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Taymyr; Kolyma; Yar; Ice; IPY; Magnetic susceptibility; permafrost; Taymyr Peninsula; Thermokarst; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22738/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22738/1/Str2010f.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.35418; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.35418.d001

In course of the IPY project № 15 Past permafrost fieldwork was undertaken at riverbank permafrost sections of Duvanny Yar (68.63190°N, 159.14200°E) in summer 2008.The Duvanny Yar section exposing the Yedoma Suite is considered as the stratotype of the East Siberian late Quaternary stratigraphy (Hop...