Complex of Geophysical Studies of the Seyakha Catastrophic Gas Blowout Crater on the Yamal Peninsula, Russian Arctic

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Vasily Bogoyavlensky, Igor Bogoyavlensky, Roman Nikonov, Aleksei Kishankov
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Yamal Peninsula; gas blowout; gas explosion; crater; permafrost; pingo; pingo-like feature (PLF); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); ground penetrating radar (GPR); Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10060215

This article describes the main results of two Arctic expeditions in 2017–2018 to study the Seyakha Crater in the north of Western Siberia, Yamal Peninsula. It was formed on a place of a pingo-like feature (PLF) by huge blowout, self-ignition, and explosion of gas on 28 June 2017. In 2018, for the f...