LAST GLACIATION IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE EASTERN CHUKCHI PENINSULA AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHY OF THE NORTH PACIFIC

Abstract

The Last Glaciation covered limited areas in the northeastern Asia. Even in the Kamchatka Peninsula, where valley glaciers were more than 100 km long, the névé line is located at the altitude of 700–800 m on the Kronotskii Peninsula and 1000–1700 m 150–180 km in the western area. The north Yakutian (i.e., cirque type) mechanism of the Sartan Glaciation is assumed for the Chukchi Peninsula. Few researchers assume that valley glaciers in this area are up to 15–20 km long (50 km in rare cases). In this connection, the wide distribution of fresh glacial relief in our map of the Vakarem lowland seems unusual.