Palaeoclimate characteristics in interior Siberia of MIS 6–2: first insights from the Batagay permafrost mega-thaw slump in the Yana Highlands

Ashastina, Kseniia; Schirrmeister, Lutz; Fuchs, Margret; Kienast, Frank

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-795-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-795-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-795-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

Research article

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06 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 06 Jul 2017

Palaeoclimate characteristics in interior Siberia of MIS 6–2: first insights from the Batagay permafrost mega-thaw slump in the Yana Highlands

Kseniia Ashastina, Lutz Schirrmeister, Margret Fuchs, and Frank Kienast

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Refereed Review', Benjamin Gaglioti, 18 Dec 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to B.Gaglioti', Kseniia Ashastina, 20 Dec 2016
EC1: 'please post a reply to Reviewer's comments', Denis-Didier Rousseau, 19 Dec 2016
RC1: 'SC "Refereed Review" again as RC', B. V. Gaglioti, 20 Dec 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to B.Gaglioti', Kseniia Ashastina, 09 Jan 2017
RC2: 'Review of Ashastina et al.', D.G. Froese, 22 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to D.G.Froese', Kseniia Ashastina, 04 Jan 2017
EC2: 'please post a reply to the second Reviewer's comments', Denis-Didier Rousseau, 23 Dec 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (19 Jan 2017) by Denis-Didier Rousseau

AR by Kseniia Ashastina on behalf of the Authors (02 Mar 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Mar 2017) by Denis-Didier Rousseau

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (05 May 2017)

ED: Publish as is (19 May 2017) by Denis-Didier Rousseau

Short summary

We present the first detailed description and sedimentological analyses of an 80 m permafrost sequence exposed in a mega-thaw slump near Batagay in the Yana Highlands, Russia, and attempt to deduce its genesis. First dating results (¹⁴C, OSL) show that the sequence represents a continental climate record spanning from the Middle Pleistocene to the Holocene. We suggest that the characteristics of the studied deposits are a result of various seasonally controlled climatically induced processes.