The genesis of Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost – grain-size endmember modeling analysis from Siberia and Alaska

• Published in: E&G Quaternary Science Journal
• Main Authors: L. Schirrmeister, E. Dietze, H. Matthes, G. Grosse, J. Strauss, S. Laboor, M. Ulrich, F. Kienast, S. Wetterich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Remma; Ice; permafrost; wedge*; Alaska; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-33-2020; https://doaj.org/article/9b17bb28ac4e4a89ad8c2a2595f16cc1

The late Pleistocene Yedoma Ice Complex is an ice-rich and organic-bearing type of permafrost deposit widely distributed across Beringia and is assumed to be especially prone to deep degradation with warming temperature, which is a potential tipping point of the climate system. To better understand...