Mineral associations of late Quaternary permafrost deposits - Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island compared to other locations in northern Siberia.

• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Wetterich, Sebastian, Schwamborn, Georg, Matthes, Heidrun, Grosse, Guido, Klimova, I., Kunitsky, Viktor V., Siegert, Christine
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Melnikov Permafrost Institute (MPI) 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Laptev Sea; Yakutsk; Boreas; Yukagir; Alfred Wegener Institute; Archipelago; Ice; laptev; lena delta; permafrost; Thermokarst; wedge*; Alaska; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53064/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53064/1/Schirrmeister_et_al_2020.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.9b0227d9-1103-402c-93a8-85f2812abc57; https://hdl.handle.net/

Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island has been a major focus area in Yedoma research in course of joint Russian-German expeditions in 1999, 2007 and 2014 conducted by colleagues from the Mel’nikov Permafrost Institute Yakutsk and the Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam [1,2]. However, origins and genesis of perig...