The stratigraphic framework for the Upper Pleistocene of the glaciated Russian Arctic: changing paradigms

• Main Author: Valery Astakhov
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Upper Pleistocene; stratigraphy; glacial geology; Russian Arctic; Arctic; Zyryanka; Fennoscandian; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.555.8664

The development of stratigraphic ideas and terminology for the area of Late Pleistocene glaciation beyond the limit of the Fennoscandian ice sheet is discussed. The original meaning and subsequent distortions of the Siberian stratigraphic terms Zyryanka, Karginsky, Sartan and others are described. S...