Polar tree line beyond todays Arctic Siberian mainland coast during the last Interglacial: the paleontological evidence

• Main Authors: Kienast, F., Wetterich, Sebastian, Kuzmina, S., Andreev, Andrei, Tarasov, P., Nazarova, Larisa, Kossler, A., Schirrmeister, Lutz, Kunitsky, V.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Thermokarst; Tundra; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22783/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.35479

Remains of fossil organisms, including plants, insects (beetles, chironomids), ostracods and gastropods, preserved in frozen deposits of a shallow paleo-lake indicate boreal climate at todays Arctic mainland coast of Oyogos Yar, Yakutia during the last interglacial about 125.000 years BP. Terrestria...