Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China)
Unusually large cryoturbation structures (4–4.5 m amplitude), developed in channel gravels and overbank fine‐grained deposits of a river terrace on the NE Tibet Plateau, China, were formed by loadcasting as late Pleistocene‐age permafrost degraded. It is suggested that the oversaturation and liquefa...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:wly:perpro:v:27:y:2016:i:1:p:138-143 2023-05-15T16:36:55+02:00 Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China) J. Vandenberghe X. Wang D. Vandenberghe https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1847 unknown https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1847 article ftrepec https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1847 2020-12-04T13:31:25Z Unusually large cryoturbation structures (4–4.5 m amplitude), developed in channel gravels and overbank fine‐grained deposits of a river terrace on the NE Tibet Plateau, China, were formed by loadcasting as late Pleistocene‐age permafrost degraded. It is suggested that the oversaturation and liquefaction of the thawed sediments could have been achieved only if the amount of ice in the upper 4–4.5 m of terrace sediments had been very high. The structures, dated at around 26–20 ka by OSL, point to the presence of a massive icy layer existing within a permafrost body during the Last Permafrost Maximum. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 27 1 138 143 |
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Unusually large cryoturbation structures (4–4.5 m amplitude), developed in channel gravels and overbank fine‐grained deposits of a river terrace on the NE Tibet Plateau, China, were formed by loadcasting as late Pleistocene‐age permafrost degraded. It is suggested that the oversaturation and liquefaction of the thawed sediments could have been achieved only if the amount of ice in the upper 4–4.5 m of terrace sediments had been very high. The structures, dated at around 26–20 ka by OSL, point to the presence of a massive icy layer existing within a permafrost body during the Last Permafrost Maximum. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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J. Vandenberghe X. Wang D. Vandenberghe Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China) |
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Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China) |
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Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China) |
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Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China) |
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Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China) |
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Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China) |
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very large cryoturbation structures of last permafrost maximum age at the foot of the qilian mountains (ne tibet plateau, china) |
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