Late Pleistocene glacial and lake history of northwestern Russia

• Main Authors: Eiliv Larsen, Kurt H. Kjær, Igor N. Demidov, Svend Funder, Kari Grøsfjeld, Maria Jensen, Henriette Linge, Astrid Lyså
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Dammed Lake; Kara Sea; White Sea; Arkhangelsk; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Pechora; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.526.2844

Five regionally significant Weichselian glacial events, each separated by terrestrial and marine interstadial conditions, are described from northwestern Russia. The first glacial event took place in the Early Weichselian. An ice sheet centred in the Kara Sea area dammed up a large lake in the Pecho...