Fossil organic carbon in Siberian Yedoma and thermokarst deposits

• Main Authors: Strauss, Jens, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian, Meyer, Hanno
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Global warming; Ice; kolyma river; laptev; Laptev Sea; permafrost; Subarctic; Thermokarst; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31117/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31117/1/StraussAGU2011.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39972; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39972.d001

During the late Quaternary, a large pool of organic carbon accumulated in the ice-rich syngenetic frozen deposits and soils preserved in the arctic and subarctic permafrost zone. Because of the potential release of organic carbon from degrading permafrost, the organic-matter (OM) inventory in Yedoma...