Periglacial landscape evolution and environmental changes of Arctic lowland areas for the last 60 000 years (western Laptev Sea coast, Cape Mamontov Klyk)

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Grosse, Guido, Kunitsky, Viktor, Magens, Diana, Meyer, Hanno, Dereviagin, Alexander, Kuznetsova, Tatyana, Andreev, Andrei, Babiy, Olga, Kienast, Frank, Grigoriev, Mikhael, Overduin, Pier Paul, Preusser, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Ice; Ice Sheet; laptev; Laptev Sea; Magnetic susceptibility; permafrost; Polar Research; Taymyr; Taymyr Peninsula; Thermokarst; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57870/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57870/1/Schirrmeister_2008_PolRes.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.b5c77197-1bc6-4804-a7cb-1e5a287d64b6

Non-glaciated Arctic lowlands in north-east Siberia were subjected to extensive landscape and environmental changes during the Late Quaternary. Coastal cliffs along the Arctic shelf seas expose terrestrial archives containing numerous palaeoenvironmental indicators (e.g., pollen, plant macro-fossils...