200 kyrs of sediment deposition in the coastal lowlands of Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky – a record of deglaciation of the New Siberian Islands?

• Main Authors: Schwamborn, Georg, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian, Fuchs, Margret, Meyer, Hanno, Siegert, Christine
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: East Siberian Sea; Ice; Ice Sheet; New Siberian Islands; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41968/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48773

Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky, the southernmost island of the New Siberian Archipelago, holds the longest record of palaeoenvironmental history in the North Siberian Arctic. It stretches back to ~200 kyr before present. Next to palaeosols and floodplain deposits it includes prominent thermokarst deposits...