An ice sheet on the East Siberian shelf in the late Pleistocene

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Abstract
The morphology of the New Siberian Islands and of the adjacent sea bed provides clear evidence of the existence of a former ice sheet whose center was located north of the archipelago. Much of the material involved in the glaciotectonic structures of the islands was derived from the depression in the sea bed to the north of Bunge Land and Novaya Sibir’. Substantiating evidence is provided by the pattern and peculiarities of glacial meltwater channels and by the evidence of isostatic rebound. Holocene silts overlying compacted sediments on the bed of the East Siberian Sea would suggest that the glaciation occurred in the late Pleistocene.
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