This digital database is the product of collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Foothill College GeoSpatial Technology Certificate Program, and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska. The primary goal for creating this digital database is to enhance current estimates of organic carbon stored in deep permafrost, in particular Late Pleistocene syngenetic ice-rich loess permafrost deposits, called Yedoma. This deposit is vulnerable to thermokarst and erosion due to natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The original paper maps were issued by the Department of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation or its predecessor the...
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Bykovsky,
Central Siberia,
Deputatsky,
East Siberia,
Khonuu, All tags...
Nizhnekolymsk,
Novosibirskiye Ostrova,
Olekminsk,
Ozero Taymyr,
Russia,
Srednekolymsk,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Verkhoyansk,
Yakutsk,
Yedoma,
Zhigansk,
ice-rich permafrost,
loess, Fewer tags
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