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- Title
Glacial Lake Vitim, a 3000-km<sup>3</sup> outburst flood from Siberia to the Arctic Ocean
- Authors
Margold, Martin; Jansson, Krister N.; Stroeven, Arjen P.; Jansen, John D.
- Abstract
Abstract: A prominent lake formed when glaciers descending from the Kodar Range blocked the River Vitim in central Transbaikalia, Siberia. Glacial Lake Vitim, evidenced by palaeoshorelines and deltas, covered 23,500km2 and held a volume of ~3000km3. We infer that a large canyon in the area of the postulated ice dam served as a spillway during an outburst flood that drained through the rivers Vitim and Lena into the Arctic Ocean. The inferred outburst flood, of a magnitude comparable to the largest known floods on Earth, possibly explains a freshwater spike at ~13calka BP inferred from Arctic Ocean sediments.
- Subjects
ARCTIC Ocean; VITIM River (Russia); KODAR Range (Russia); SIBERIA (Russia); RUSSIA; GLACIAL lakes; FLOODS; MARINE sediments
- Publication
Quaternary Research, 2011, Vol 76, Issue 3, p393
- ISSN
0033-5894
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.009