Выпуск: 5 , Том: 14 , Год издания: 2017

The study presented here is part of the Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Group. We gratefully acknowledge the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for funding this study as part of the joint German-Russian research project CARBOPERM (03G0836B, 03G0836F). Moreover, we acknowledge the support by the European Research Council (starting grant no. 338335) and the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association (no. ERC-0013). We thank our colleagues, who helped during fieldwork in 2014, especially Dmitry Mel'nichenko and colleagues from the Hydrobase Tiksi, and Waldemar Schneider from AWI Potsdam, who greatly supported the logistics of this expedition. The analytical work in the AWI laboratories was expertly conducted by Ute Bastian, Dyke Scheidemann, Antje Eulenburg, Hanno Meyer, and Lutz Schonicke. We are grateful to Marcus Richter (TU Dresden) and to Ingrid Stein (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) for IRSL analyses, and to Jorg Erzinger, Sabine Schumann (GFZ Potsdam), and Torben Windirsch (University of Potsdam) for TS measurements. Finally, the paper benefited from the reviews of Mikhail Kanevskiy (University of Alaska Fairbanks) and one anonymous reviewer with constructive comments, and English language corrections from Candace O'Connor (Fairbanks Alaska).