IMPLICATIONS OF YEDOMA BANK OUTCROPS ON THE ARCTIC RIVERS SEDIMENT RUNOFF

• Main Authors: Sergey R. Chalov, Vsevolod M. Moreydo, Kristina N. Prokopeva, Vasily A. Efimov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Для почтовых отправлений: 199155 Санкт-Петербург, а/я 136, Редакция журнала «Гидросфера. Опасные процессы и явления» / For mail: 199155 St. Petersburg, PO Box 136 Editorial Board of the «Hydrosphere. Hazardous processes and phenomena». 2023
• Subjects: sediment runoff; permafrost; rivers of the Russian Arctic; Duvanny Yar; Kolyma River; acoustic doppler discharge measurement; river channel processes; сток наносов; многолетнемерзлые отложения; реки арктического побережья России; Дуванный Яр; Колыма; допплеровская расходометрия; русловые процессы; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Indigirka; Kolyma; Yar; Ice; kolyma river
• Online Access: https://hydro-sphere.ru/index.php/hydrosphere/article/view/157; https://doi.org/10.34753/HS.2022.4.2.165

The erosion of permafrost outcrops (yedoma) in the valleys of large Arctic rivers is considered as an important source of suspended sediment and carbon inflow into the natural waters of the Lena, Kolyma, Yana, Indigirka Rivers and further into the Arctic Ocean. In the course of expeditionary studies...