Paleoenvironmental dynamics of Western Beringia - New studies from the Yedoma key site Duvanny Yar (Lower Kolyma River, Siberia)

• Main Authors: Strauss, Jens, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Ice; kolyma river; Magnetic susceptibility; permafrost; Thermokarst; wedge*; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22810/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22810/1/Str2010h.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.35502; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.35502.d001

Duvanny Yar is a stratigraphic key site for the late Quaternary in Western Beringia. It is characteristic for ice-rich permafrost sequences in north-east Siberia, known as of the Yedoma Suite (e.g. KAPLINA et al. 1978; Sher et al. 1979) and is an important reference site for the late Pleistocene his...