High resolution palaeo-ecological analysis of an Arctic ice-wedge polygon mire (Kytalyk, NE Siberia)

• Main Author: Teltewskoi, Annette
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Moore; Permafrost; Paläoökologie; Vegetation; Modellierung; Fossilisation; Pollen; Fossilien; Geochemie; Arktis; ddc:560; Arctic; Indigirka; Arktis*; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; wedge*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epub.ub.uni-greifswald.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3864; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-38643; https://epub.ub.uni-greifswald.de/files/3864/Dissertation_Teltewskoi-Annette_2020.pdf

Ice-wedge polygon mires are typical features of the Artic and therefore especially affected by climate change. They show, caused by soil-ice action, an amazing regular polygonal structure in meter dimension of higher and lower elevated dry and wet parts, and to this microtopography adapted vegetatio...