Facies logs and age determinations of 8 sites from Taymyr Peninsula

• Main Authors: Möller, Per, Bolshiyanov, Dimitry Yu, Bergsten, Helene
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1999
• Subjects: agedetermination; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Cape Sabler; Taymyr Lake; Taymyr Peninsula; Krasnoyarsk; northern Russia; CS1; CS2; facieslogs; Led1a; Led1b; Led1c; Led2; Led3; Led4; Ledyanaya; OUTCROP; Outcrop sample; Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North; QUEEN; RU-Land_1996_Taymyr; Taymyr96; Labaz_Lake_Expedition; Arctic; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.727407; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.727407

The Taymyr Peninsula constitutes the eastern delimitation of a possible Kara Sea basin ice sheet. The existence of such an ice sheet during the last global glacial maximum (LGM), i.e. during the Late Weichselian/Upper Zyryansk, is favoured by some Russian scientists. However, a growing number of stu...