Structure and Cenozoic evolution of the Kolyma river valley, eastern Siberia, from its upper reaches to the continental shelf

Climatically controlled river terrace staircases: A worldwide Quaternary phenomenon

“…Summary review papers were therefore produced as part of IGCP 449, describing the sequences of the northern Black Sea and Caspian Sea rivers (Matoshko et al, 2002(Matoshko et al, , 2004 and from rivers flowing to the Russian Arctic, namely the Kolyma (Patyk Kara and Postolenko, 2004) and Lena (Alekseev and Drouchits, 2004) The Dniester flows for ~700 km across Ukraine and Moldova, along the foreland basin of the Carpathian mountain range to the Black Sea, staying within the relatively young crust to the west of the East European Platform (Fig. 2a).…”

Fluvial sequences as evidence for landscape and climatic evolution in the Late Cenozoic: A synthesis of data from IGCP 518

“…3b); (27), the Mammoth Caves karstic region adjoining the Lower Ohio, where alternations in uplift and subsidence are demonstrated (e.g., Granger et al, 2001;Westaway, 2007a); (28) and (29), the Middle Ohio and Susquehanna (e.g., Westaway, 2007a); (30), the Andean Altiplano; (31), the River Paraná in SW Brazil (Fig. 3c); (32) and (33), the Niger (e.g., and Tana (Veldkamp et al, 2007), which demonstrate fluvial terrace staircase development in tropical Africa; (34), the Vaal, the record from which demonstrates the extreme stability of the crust of the Kaapvaal craton in South Africa (Westaway et al, 2003;; (35), the Sundays, in the non-cratonic part of South Africa, which has produced a long-timescale fluvial terrace staircase indicating phases of uplift correlated with climate change (e.g., ; (36) and (37), the Lena and Kolyma in the high Arctic of eastern Siberia, where long-timescale fluvial terrace staircases are preserved as a result of the local absence of Quaternary glaciation (Alekseev and Drouchits, 2004;Patyk-Kara and Postolenko, 2004). techniques (see below) that have been developed to model such data (cf. Westaway, 2004).…”

The Ulakhan fault surface rupture and the seismicity of the Okhotsk-North America plate boundary

“…The consistency of these values as well as the generally good quality of grains used (well bleached, low scatter) gives high confidence in the ages and suggests an early Holocene abandonment 25 of this part of the fan, and by extension probably dates the first uplift of the scarp and ridge structure that reorganised the drainage in this region. The age is much younger than has generally been assumed for Quaternary deposits in the Kolyma system in the Russian literature (Patyk-Kara and Postolenko, 2004). These values are probably the first genuinely physical age determinations carried out in this region, and certainly the first employing OSL.…”