Palaeoclimate characteristics in interior Siberia of MIS 6–2: first insights from the Batagay permafrost mega-thaw slump in the Yana Highlands

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Ashastina, Kseniia, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Fuchs, Margret, Kienast, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Sakha; Verkhoyansk; Ice; permafrost; Sakha Republic; Thermokarst; wedge*; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6408362; https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-795-2017; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877346

Syngenetic permafrost deposits formed extensively on and around the arising Beringian subcontinent during the Late Pleistocene sea level lowstands. Syngenetic deposition implies that all material, both mineral and organic, freezes parallel to sedimentation and remains frozen until degradation of the...