Yedoma Ice Complex of the Buor Khaya Peninsula (southern Laptev Sea)

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Schirrmeister, Lutz, Schwamborn, Georg, Overduin, Pier Paul, Strauss, Jens, Fuchs, Margret C., Grigoriev, Mikhail, Yakshina, Irina, Rethemeyer, Janet, Dietze, Elisabeth, Wetterich, Sebastian
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Buor-Khaya; Khaya; Laptev Sea; Talik; Ice; laptev; permafrost; wedge*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1261-2017; https://www.biogeosciences.net/14/1261/2017/

The composition of perennially frozen deposits holds information on the palaeo-environment during and following deposition. In this study, we investigate late Pleistocene permafrost at the western coast of the Buor Khaya Peninsula in the south-central Laptev Sea (Siberia), namely the prominent easte...