Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records from the western Lena Delta, Arctic Siberia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 299, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 175-196

  Schirrmeister, Lutz ^a   Grosse, Guido ^b   Schnelle, Moritz ^a   Fuchs, Margret ^c   Krbetschek, Matthias ^d   Ulrich, Mathias ^a   Kunitsky, Viktor ^e   Grigoriev, Mikhail ^e   Andreev, Andrei ^f   Kienast, Frank ^g   Meyer, Hanno ^a   Babiy, Olga ^e   Klimova, Irina ^e   Bobrov, Anatoly ^h   Wetterich, Sebastian ^a   Schwamborn, Georg ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^d Section Quaternary Geochronology   (Germany)

^e MELNIKOV PERMAFROST INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^h MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cryolithology; Geochronology; Laptev Sea shelf; Paleoecology; Paleogeography; Periglacial; Permafrost; Western Beringia

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; QUATERNARY; RIVER CHANNEL; THERMOKARST;

ARCTIC; LENA DELTA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA;

EID: 78650612222     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.045     Document Type: Article

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