Distribution of pingos from topographic maps, permafrost region, Siberia (RU) ...

• Main Authors: Grosse, Guido, Jones, Benjamin M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Frost Mounds; Permafrost; Pingo; Multiple investigations; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.906222; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.906222

A detailed attributed point feature shapefile of 6059 pingo locations in a 3.5 × 10⁶ km² region of northern Asia was manually assembled from 1:200 000 scale Russian topographic maps. These medium-scale maps are based on detailed mapping efforts at 1:50 000 and 1:100 000 scales, which in turn are der...