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Maly Lyakhovsky Island (russian: Малый Ляховский) is the second largest of the Mal. Lyakhovskiy (Lachovski)
/ref> The Lyakhovsky Islands are named in honour of Ivan Lyakhov, who explored them in 1773.
Middle Cretaceous to Eopleistocene Sequences on the New Siberian Islands: an approach to interpret offshore seismic.
'' Marine and Petroleum Geology''. vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 901–919.Kos’ko, M.K., B.G. Lopatin, and V.G. Ganelin, 1990, ''Major geological features of the islands of the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas and the Northern Coast of Chukotka.'' Marine Geology. vol. 93, pp. 349–367. On 29 May 2013, an expedition of North-Eastern Federal University found the remains of a 10,000-year-old carcass of a female mammoth on Maliy Lyakhovsky Island. It was reported that liquid blood was found in ice cavities below the belly even though the temperature at the time of excavation was . It was speculated that this find might reveal information about the cryoprotective properties of mammoth blood. The mammoth remains were taken to
''Sensational discovery: NEFU scientists have discovered a female mammoth.''
North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.
Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map
Scale 1:7,500,000. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Map No. 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska.
''Climate and Diet of Mammoths in the East Siberian Arctic .''
Science Briefs (August 1999). Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York. Last visited July 12, 2008. *Anisimov, M.A., and V.E. Tumskoy, 2002
32nd International Arctic Workshop, Program and Abstracts 2002. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, pp 23–25. *anonymous, nd, aerial photographs of these islands. *Kuznetsova, T.V., L.D. Sulerzhitsky, Ch. Siegert, 2001
New data on the "Mammoth" fauna of the Laptev Shelf Land (East Siberian Arctic)
144 KB PDF file, The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome 2001. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Centro di Studio per il Quaternario e l'Evoluzione Ambientale, Università di Roma, Roma, Italy. *Schirrmeister, L., H.-W. Hubberten, V. Rachold, and V.G. Grosse, 2005
''Lost world – Late Quaternary environment of periglacial Arctic shelves and coastal lowlands in NE-Siberia.''
2nd International Alfred Wegener Symposium Bremerhaven, October, 30 – November 2, 2005. {{East Siberian Sea Islands New Siberian Islands Lyakhovsky Islands Islands of the Sakha Republic
Maly Lyakhovsky Island (russian: Малый Ляховский) is the second largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands
The Lyakhovsky Islands ( rus, Ляховские острова, r=Lyakhovskiye ostrova; sah, Ляхов арыылара) are the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic seas of eastern Russia.
The islands are named in hono ...
belonging to the New Siberian Islands
The New Siberian Islands ( rus, Новосиби́рские Oстрова, r=Novosibirskiye Ostrova; sah, Саҥа Сибиир Aрыылара, translit=Saña Sibiir Arıılara) are an archipelago in the Extreme North of Russia, to the north ...
archipelago in Laptev Sea
The Laptev Sea ( rus, мо́ре Ла́птевых, r=more Laptevykh; sah, Лаптевтар байҕаллара, translit=Laptevtar baỹğallara) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, t ...
in northern Russia
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. It has an area of ./ref> The Lyakhovsky Islands are named in honour of Ivan Lyakhov, who explored them in 1773.
Geology
Maly Lyakhovsky Island consists of UpperJurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...
to lower Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...
turbidite
A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing vast amounts of clastic sediment into the deep ocean.
Sequencing
Turbidites wer ...
s, also known as ''flysch
Flysch () is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers that progress from deep-water and turbidity flow deposits to shallow-water shales and sandstones. It is deposited when a deep basin forms rapidly on the continental side of a mountain building epi ...
'', covered by a thin veneer of Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58Pleistocene
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sediment
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s. These Mesozoic
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rocks consist of sandstone
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicat ...
s, argillite
:''"Argillite" may also refer to Argillite, Kentucky.''
Argillite () is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles. Argillaceous rocks are basically lithified muds and oozes. They contain variable amounts ...
s, and shales
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially ...
deformed into east-northeast striking folds about wide. The Mesozoic rocks are covered by a relatively thin layer of Pliocene to Pleistocene sandy and clayey sediments of colluvial and alluvial
Alluvium (from Latin ''alluvius'', from ''alluere'' 'to wash against') is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. ...
origin. Near the coast, the alluvial sediments grade into nearshore marine
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sediments containing fossil
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marine mollusk
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s and lignitized wood. Thick permafrost
Permafrost is ground that continuously remains below 0 °C (32 °F) for two or more years, located on land or under the ocean. Most common in the Northern Hemisphere, around 15% of the Northern Hemisphere or 11% of the global surface ...
characterized by massive ice wedges has developed in these sediments.Fujita, K., and D.B. Cook, 1990, ''The Arctic continental margin of eastern Siberia'', in A. Grantz, L. Johnson, and J. F. Sweeney, eds., pp. 289–304, The Arctic Ocean Region. Geology of North America, vol L, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.Kos’ko, M.K., and G.V. Trufanov, 2002Middle Cretaceous to Eopleistocene Sequences on the New Siberian Islands: an approach to interpret offshore seismic.
'' Marine and Petroleum Geology''. vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 901–919.Kos’ko, M.K., B.G. Lopatin, and V.G. Ganelin, 1990, ''Major geological features of the islands of the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas and the Northern Coast of Chukotka.'' Marine Geology. vol. 93, pp. 349–367. On 29 May 2013, an expedition of North-Eastern Federal University found the remains of a 10,000-year-old carcass of a female mammoth on Maliy Lyakhovsky Island. It was reported that liquid blood was found in ice cavities below the belly even though the temperature at the time of excavation was . It was speculated that this find might reveal information about the cryoprotective properties of mammoth blood. The mammoth remains were taken to
Yakutsk
Yakutsk (russian: Якутск, p=jɪˈkutsk; sah, Дьокуускай, translit=Djokuuskay, ) is the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about south of the Arctic Circle. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one ...
in Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far E ...
, Russia, for bacterial examination and tissues analysis, especially for a joint project of NEFU and Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in cloning a mammoth.Lupanov, N (2013''Sensational discovery: NEFU scientists have discovered a female mammoth.''
North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.
Vegetation
Rush/grass, forb, cryptogam tundra covers Maly Lyakhovsky Island. It is tundra consisting mostly of very low-growing grasses, rushes, forbs, mosses, lichens, and liverworts. These plants either mostly or completely cover the surface of the ground. The soils are typically moist, fine-grained, and often hummocky.CAVM Team, 2003Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map
Scale 1:7,500,000. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Map No. 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska.
See also
*List of mammoths
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* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
External links
*Andreev, A.A., and D.M. Peteet, 1999''Climate and Diet of Mammoths in the East Siberian Arctic .''
Science Briefs (August 1999). Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York. Last visited July 12, 2008. *Anisimov, M.A., and V.E. Tumskoy, 2002
32nd International Arctic Workshop, Program and Abstracts 2002. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, pp 23–25. *anonymous, nd, aerial photographs of these islands. *Kuznetsova, T.V., L.D. Sulerzhitsky, Ch. Siegert, 2001
New data on the "Mammoth" fauna of the Laptev Shelf Land (East Siberian Arctic)
144 KB PDF file, The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome 2001. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Centro di Studio per il Quaternario e l'Evoluzione Ambientale, Università di Roma, Roma, Italy. *Schirrmeister, L., H.-W. Hubberten, V. Rachold, and V.G. Grosse, 2005
''Lost world – Late Quaternary environment of periglacial Arctic shelves and coastal lowlands in NE-Siberia.''
2nd International Alfred Wegener Symposium Bremerhaven, October, 30 – November 2, 2005. {{East Siberian Sea Islands New Siberian Islands Lyakhovsky Islands Islands of the Sakha Republic