Multiyear Fast Ice along the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Key words; multiyear land-fast sea ice; incipient ice shelves; sediment entrainment; interglacial/glacial transition; Siberia; Laptev Sea; Arctic; Barrier Islands; Taymyr; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; laptev; Sea ice; Taymyr Peninsula; walrus*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.571.4179; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic48-4-359.pdf

ABSTRACT. A 20 km wide zone of fast ice, reaching offshore to the 20 m isobath and sealing off coastal embayments along the Taymyr Peninsula, survived until at least 23 November 1993, becoming multiyear land-fast sea ice (MLSI). Barrier islands show characteristic recurved spits indicating dominant...