Database of Ice-Rich Yedoma Permafrost (IRYP)

• Main Authors: Strauss, Jens, Laboor, Sebastian, Fedorov, Alexander N, Fortier, Daniel, Froese, Duane G, Fuchs, Matthias, Grosse, Guido, Günther, Frank, Harden, Jennifer W, Hugelius, Gustaf, Kanevskiy, Mikhail Z, Kholodov, Alexander L, Kunitsky, Victor V, Kraev, Gleb, Lapointe-Elmrabti, Lyna, Lozhkin, Anatoly V, Rivkina, Elizaveta, Robinson, Joel, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Shmelev, Denis, Shur, Yuri, Siegert, Christine, Spektor, Valentin, Ulrich, Mathias, Vartanyan, Sergey L, Veremeeva, Alexandra, Walter Anthony, Katey M, Zimov, Sergey A
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: AWI_PerDyn; Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra; wedge*; Alaska; Siberia; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.861733; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861733

Vast portions of Arctic and sub-Arctic Siberia, Alaska and the Yukon Territory are covered by ice-rich silty to sandy deposits that are containing large ice wedges, resulting from syngenetic sedimentation and freezing. Accompanied by wedge-ice growth in polygonal landscapes, the sedimentation proces...