PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS FROM PERMAFROST SEQUENCES AT THE KARA SEA COAST (NW SIBERIA, RUSSIA)

• Published in: GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY
• Main Authors: Irina Streletskaya, Evgeny Gusev, Alexander Vasiliev, Gleb Oblogov, Anatoly Molodkov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Geographical Society 2013
• Subjects: arctic coasts;permafrost;tabular massive ground ice;stable isotopes;syngenetic polygonal ice wedges;palaeoclimate; Arctic; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Yenisey; Foraminifera*; Ice; permafrost; Polar Geography; Polar Research; wedge*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/140; https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2013-6-3-60-76

The Kara Sea coasts were studied using comprehensive stratigraphic and geocryological methods. The paper presents the new analytical studies of ground ice and Quaternary deposits of Western Taymyr and presents the results of spore and pollen, foraminifera, grain-size, mineralogical, geochemical, oxy...