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A Regional Geochronological Study of Late Pleistocene Permafrost

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

V. V. Kostyukevich
V. V. Kostyukevich*
Affiliation:
Geochemistry Laboratory, Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergelyakh, Yakutsk 677010 Russia
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Abstract

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The use of radiocarbon dating in geocryological investigations makes it possible to establish a chronology for permafrost-geological development during the Late Pleistocene. Both global and regional time scales for the formation of Late Pleistocene permafrost have been worked out over the past 15–20 years at the Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I present here results from study areas of northwestern Siberia and of North, Central and West Yakutia.

Type
Geochronology and Paleogeography
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 477 - 486
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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