Barents Kara Ice Sheet
The Barents Kara Ice Sheet was a massive ice sheet in northern Russia, the largest extent of which was in the Vistula Ice Age about 90,000 years ago. At that time, the ice sheet covered the Pechora Sea , the southeastern part of the Barents Sea , the double island of Novaya Zemlya , the Kara Sea and possibly extended as far as Spitzbergen and Franz Joseph Land in the north . On the mainland, the area from the North Russian Lowland to the North Siberian Lowland was also under the ice sheet.
During later advancing phases of the ice in the Vistula Ice Age, it probably no longer reached the Russian mainland, while the Fennoscan Ice Sheet in the west covered ever larger areas and reached its maximum around 20,000 years ago.
It is believed that the ice sheet prevented large Russian rivers ( Pechora , Ob and Yenisei ) from flowing into the Arctic Ocean and that several lakes were dammed up. There is even the assumption that a shallow, huge lake could have formed in the West Siberian lowlands , which drained into the Aral Sea or the Caspian Sea .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matti Saarnisto: Climate variability during the last interglacial-glacial cycle in NW Eurasia ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Scientist Contributes to Study Explaining Huge Prehistoric Ice Sheet ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lioubimtseva EU, Gorshkov SP, Adams JM: A giant siberian lake during the last glacial: Evidence and implications ( Memento of the original dated December 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
