Yedoma Ice Complex of the Buor Khaya Peninsula (southern Laptev Sea)

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Schwamborn, Georg, Overduin, Paul, Strauss, Jens, Fuchs, Margret, Grigoriev, Mikhail N., Yakshina, Irina A., Rethemeyer, Janet, Dietze, Elisabeth, Wetterich, Sebastian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2017
• Subjects: Buor-Khaya; Khaya; Laptev Sea; Ice; laptev; permafrost; wedge*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44273/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44273/1/Schirrmeister2017bg.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50613; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50613.d001

The composition of perennially frozen deposits holds information on the paleo-environment during and following deposition. In this study, we investigate late Pleistocene permafrost at the western coast of the Buor Khaya Peninsula in the south-central Laptev Sea (Siberia); namely prominent eastern Si...