The north Taymyr ice-marginal zone, arctic Siberia—a preliminary overview and dating

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Alexanderson, Helena, Hjort, Christian, Möller, Per, Antonov, O., Pavlov, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2001
• Subjects: Geology; absolute age; Arctic Coastal Plain; Arctic region; Asia; C-14 - carbon; Cenozoic; clastic sediments; Commonwealth of Independent States; dams; dates; deltaic environment; depositional environment; extinct lakes; glacial environment; glacial features; glacial geology; glacial lakes; glaciation; glaciolacustrine environment; ice dams; ice-marginal features; isotope; Krasnoyarsk Russian Federation; lacustrine environment; lakes; last glacial maximum; luminescence; natural dams; paleogeography; paleolimnology; Pleistocene; Quaternary; radioactive isotopes; Russian Federation; sediments; Siberia; Taymyr Dolgan-Nenets Russian Federation; Taymyr Peninsula; till; upper Pleistocene; Weichselian; Arctic; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Dolgan-Nenets; Ice Sheet; nenets
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/3116082; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(01)00133-3

he North Taymyr ice-marginal zone (NTZ) is a complex of glacial, glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine deposits, laid down on the northwestern Taymyr Peninsula in northernmost Siberia, along the front of ice sheets primarily originating on the Kara Sea shelf. It was originally recognised from satellite...