Past landscape and permafrost dynamics in Arctic Alaska based on sedimentary records

• Main Authors: Lenz, Josefine, Grosse, Guido, Jones, Benjamin M., Fritz, Michael, Wetterich, Sebastian
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake; Talik; Climate change; Magnetic susceptibility; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Thermokarst; Alaska; Beringia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38007/; http://www.awi.de/en/research/research_divisions/geosciences/periglacial_research/events/past_gateways_conference_may_2015/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45562

Permafrost-related processes are key ecosystem drivers in the Arctic system and often an indicator for long-term environmental change. Understanding past periods of permafrost degradation and aggradation is crucial to estimate future response of the terrestrial Arctic to climate change. We collected...