A regional geochronological study of late Pleistocene permafrost

Abstract

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. Presented here are results from study areas of northwestern Siberia and of North, Central and West Yakutia. -Author