Age determination of Lake Melkoe sediments, supplement to: Shilo, N A; Lozhkin, Anatoly V; Anderson, Patricia M; Brown, Thomas A; Matrosova, T V; Kotov, A N (2006): Radiocarbon dates and palynological characteristics of sediments in Lake Melkoe, Anadyr River Basin, Chukotka. Doklady Earth Sciences, 407(1), 230-232

• Main Authors: Shilo, N A, Lozhkin, Anatoly V, Anderson, Patricia M, Brown, Thomas A, Matrosova, T V, Kotov, A N
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2006
• Subjects: Piston corer; Archive of Ocean Data ARCOD; Anadyr; Anadyr River; Anadyr’; Kholmy; Melkoe; Tyellakh; Anadyr'; Chukotka; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.789500; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.789500

The formation of Lake Melkoe (64°51'30''N, 175°14'E, altitude 36 m), one of the largest lakes of the Anadyr Lowland, is related to the moraine left by the Tyellakh Glacier, which originated on the Pekul'nei Ridge. The lake (6 km long and 4.4 km wide) extends in the northwest...