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Research article
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Research article |
| 25 May 2020
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The genesis of Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost – grain-size endmember modeling analysis from Siberia and Alaska
Lutz Schirrmeister
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Elisabeth Dietze
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Section 3.2 Organic Geochemistry, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ,
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Heidrun Matthes
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Guido Grosse
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Jens Strauss
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Sebastian Laboor
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Mathias Ulrich
Institute for Geography, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Frank Kienast
Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Weimar, Germany
Sebastian Wetterich
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
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Latest update: 07 Jun 2026
Short summary
Late Pleistocene Yedoma deposits of Siberia and Alaska are prone to degradation with warming temperatures.
Multimodal grain-size distributions of >700 samples indicate varieties of sediment production, transport, and deposition.
These processes were disentangled using robust endmember modeling analysis.
Nine robust grain-size endmembers characterize these deposits.
The data set was finally classified using cluster analysis.
The polygenetic Yedoma origin is proved.
Late Pleistocene Yedoma deposits of Siberia and Alaska are prone to degradation with warming...
