A 12.5-kyr history of vegetation dynamics and mire development with evidence of Younger Dryas larch presence in the Verkhoyansk Mountains, East Siberia, Russia

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Werner, Kirstin, Tarasov, Pavel E., Andreev, Andrei A., Müller, Stefanie, Kienast, Frank, Zech, Michael, Zech, Wolfgang, Diekmann, Bernhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Cones The; Cones, The; Verkhoyansk; Dwarf birch; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/2543/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/2543/1/924_Werner_2010_A125kyrHistoryOfVegetation_Artzeit_pubid12830.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00116.x

A 415 cm thick permafrost peat section from the Verkhoyansk Mountains was radiocarbon-dated and studied using palaeobotanical and sedimentological approaches. Accumulation of organic-rich sediment commenced in a former oxbow lake, detached from a Dyanushka River meander during the Younger Dryas stad...