Depositional history of the North Taymyr ice-marginal zone, Siberia - a landsystem approach

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Alexanderson, Helena, Adrielsson, Lena, Hjort, Christian, Möller, Per, Antonov, O, Eriksson, S, Pavlov, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2002
• Subjects: Geology; glaciation; ice-marginal zone; landsystem; Weichselian; Siberia; Arctic; Kara Sea; Sandar; Taymyr; Ice Sheet; Taymyr Peninsula
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/332267; https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.677

The sediment-landform associations of the northern Taymyr Peninsula in Arctic Siberia tell a tale of ice sheets advancing from the Kara Sea shelf and inundating the peninsula, probably three times during the Weichselian. In each case the ice sheet had a margin frozen to its bed and an interior movin...