Sedimentology, biogeochemistry stable isotopes, pollen, plant macrofossils, and diatoms from two sediments cores from the northern Yukon permafrost peatlands (Canada)

• Main Authors: Fritz, Michael, Wolter, Juliane, Rudaya, Natalia, Palagushkina, Olga V, Nazarova, Larisa B, Obu, Jaroslav, Rethemeyer, Janet, Lantuit, Hugues, Wetterich, Sebastian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: AWI_PerDyn; Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI; Arctic; Canada; Herschel Island; Yukon; Herschel; Ice; permafrost; Subarctic; Thermokarst; wedge*
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.856781; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856781

Ice-wedge polygon (IWP) mires in the Arctic and Subarctic are extremely vulnerable to climatic and environmental change. We present the results of a multidisciplinary paleoenvironmental study on IWPs in the northern Yukon, Canada. High-resolution laboratory analyses were carried out on a permafrost...