Lake stratigraphy implies an 80 000 yr delayed melting of buried dead ice in northern Russia

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 663-679

  Henriksen, Mona ^a   Mangerud, Jan ^a   Matiouchkov, Alexei ^b   Paus, Aage ^a   Svendsen John Inge, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dead ice; Deglaciation; Lake sediments; Northern Russia; Weichselian

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL LAKE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MELTING; PERMAFROST; QUATERNARY; WEICHSELIAN;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0142199368     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.788     Document Type: Article

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