Abstract

Abstract The Quaternary sequence filling the Malyk‐Sien basin includes beds of diaraicton sediments and ground ice bodies. Some specialists consider the ice bodies enclosed in these diamicton deposits to be fossil glacier ice and the icy sediments to be till. But the observed bedding (oblique in some places), traces of displacement, signs of displacements in mud flows, and inclusions of wood and peat provide evidence of a deluvial‐solifluction origin for these deposits. The sorting and bedding of sand‐and‐clay intercalations in the ice, as well as inclusions of organic material exclude the idea that they were formed by moving ice. Rather, they are evidence that they originated under the influence of moving water. The “folds”; sometimes occurring in the sand‐and‐clay intercalations represent the tracks of tiny trickles of water, depositing fine material during the ocurse of ice formation. The data on the chemical composition reveal that it is similar in composition to the surface and ground water of the ar...

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