Depositional history of the North Taymyr ice-marginal zone, Siberia-a landsystem approach

• Published in: Journal of quaternary science Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 361 - 382
• Main Authors: Alexanderson, Helena, Adrielsson, Lena, Hjort, Christian, Möller, Per, Antonov, Oleg, Eriksson, Saskia, Pavlov, Maksim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.05.2002
• Subjects: Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Freshwater; Geologi; Geology; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; glaciation; ice-marginal zone; landsystem; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; Siberia; Weichselian; PNE, Kara Sea; PNE, Russia, Krasnoyarskiy, Taymyrskiy, Taymyr Peninsula; INW, Russia, Siberia; PN, Arctic

The sediment–landform associations of the northern Taymyr Peninsula in Arctic Siberia tell a tale of ice sheets advancing from the Kara Sea shelf and inundating the peninsula, probably three times during the Weichselian. In each case the ice sheet had a margin frozen to its bed and an interior movin...