Main Features of Landforms and Exogenic Processes of the Kuril Islands (Problematic Aspects)

Environmental changes at final warming of Middle Pleistocene (MIS 7) in South Kurils

“…Reconstructions of the Middle Pleistocene paleo-climates have been performed for some regions in the east of Russia, namely Primorye, Sakhalin Island and the Chukchi Peninsula (Korotky et al, 1997(Korotky et al, , 2005Pushkar and Cherepanova, 2001;Lozhkin et al, 2007). Insufficient research has been carried out on Middle Pleistocene sediments on the Kuril Islands, and the data available are often controversial (Kulakov, 1973;Melekestsev et al, 1974;Korotky and Makarova, 2006). Paleo-reconstructions are most often based on studies of marine terraces and coastal plains, where sediments are typically thin.…”