Palaeoclimatic information from stable water isotopes of Holocene ice wedges on the Dmitrii Laptev Strait, northeast Siberia, Russia

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 84-100

  Opel, Thomas ^a,b   Dereviagin, Alexander Yu ^c   Meyer, Hanno ^a   Schirrmeister, Lutz ^a   Wetterich, Sebastian ^a  

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

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic northeast Siberia; Holocene; Ice wedges; Palaeoclimate; Permafrost; Stable water isotopes

Indexed keywords

FROZEN GROUND; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PATTERNED GROUND; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER;

ARCTIC; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 79952022330     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.667     Document Type: Article

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