Indication of Holocene sea-level stability in the southern Laptev Sea recorded by beach ridges in north-east Siberia, Russia

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Lasse Sander, Rune Michaelis, Svenja Papenmeier, Sergey Pravkin, Gesine Mollenhauer, Hendrik Grotheer, Torben Gentz, Karen Helen Wiltshire
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2019
• Subjects: arctic coastal change; gravel beaches; coastal geomorphology; wave climate; lena delta; buor khaya bay; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Laptev Sea; Khaya; Buor-Khaya; laptev; Polar Research; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v38.3379; https://doaj.org/article/0d28ea4898cf4299bb1406cbbe19e3b9

The rapid warming of the Arctic may affect the stability of coastal geomorphological systems. Prograded sequences of wave-built deposits, so-called beach-ridge systems, preserve a proxy record of the long-term variability in the drivers of coastal evolution. Information on relative sea level (RSL),...