Pleistocene climate change, natural environments and palaeolithic occupation of the upper Yenisei area, south-central Siberia
The upper Yenisei River area is of major importance for mapping the Pleistocene climate evolution over Siberia. An extensive loess cover with a suite of buried palaeosols from the Northern Minusinsk Basin has provided one of the most complete, high resolution Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic archives...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier, Pergamon Press
2001
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Online Access: | http://publikace.k.utb.cz/handle/10563/1000021 |
Summary: | The upper Yenisei River area is of major importance for mapping the Pleistocene climate evolution over Siberia. An extensive loess cover with a suite of buried palaeosols from the Northern Minusinsk Basin has provided one of the most complete, high resolution Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic archives in north-central Asia. The loess-palaeosol records indicate establishment of periglacial steppe-tundra during cold stadial intervals, replaced by parkland steppe and boreal forest during warm interstadial intervals. |
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