Earth’s Cryosphere, 2011, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 13-16

PERMAFROST RESPONSE TO CLIMATE WARMING

V.N. Konishchev

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Geography, 1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia; vkonish@mail.ru

The response of permafrost to global Late Pleistocene–Holocene warming has been investigated in the ice complex of Yakutia. Thermokarst erosion of the complex was found out to depend on the properties of landscape and its components that change as a consequence of warming. In addition to the degradation tendency, aggradational stabilization in ice complex remnants may occur in certain conditions as formation of a protective layer.