Weichselian geology and palaeo-environmental history of the central Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia, indicating no glaciation during the last global glacial maximum

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Möller, Per, Bolshiyanov, D. Yu., Bergsten, Helena
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 1999
• Subjects: Geology; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Ice Sheet; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/ca75c9cf-1a91-4b0e-b8fd-476d978aacb8; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1999.tb00208.x

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...