Filling a White Spot on the Yedoma Map: the Baldwin Peninsula, West Alaska

• Main Authors: Strauss, Jens, Grosse, Guido, Jongejans, Loeka L., Jones, Benjamin M., Fuchs, Matthias, Nitze, Ingmar, Laboor, Sebastian, Lenz, Josefine
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Bering Land Bridge; Chukchi; Chukchi Sea; Ice; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Thermokarst; wedge*; Alaska; Siberia; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45150/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45150/1/ACOP2017_Strauss_abstract.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51331; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51331.d001

Vast regions of Arctic Siberia, Alaska and the Yukon are covered with ice-rich silts penetrated by large ice wedges, resulting from syngenetic sedimentation and freezing during the Pleistocene. These deposits are termed yedoma permafrost. Because of rapid incorporation of organic material into perma...