Glacial and palaeoenvironmental history of the Cape Chelyuskin area, Arctic Russia

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Möller, Per, Fedorov, Grigorij, Pavlov, Maxim, Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig, Sparrenbom, Charlotte
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Severnaya Zemlya; Chelyuskin; Cape Chelyuskin; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Polar Research; Sea ice; Taymyr Peninsula
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2885; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v27i2.6178

Quaternary glacial stratigraphy and relative sea-level changes reveal at least two glacial expansions over the Chelyuskin Peninsula, bordering the Kara Sea at about 77°N in the Russian Arctic, as indicated from tills interbedded with marine sediments, exposed in stratigraphic superposition, and from...