Abstract
Abstract The origin of massive bodies of ground ice in Western Siberia is reconsidered on the basis of new publications and of the authors’ field observations at the Ledyanaya Gora site. The available evidence suggests that the largest ice bodies are of glacier origin and are buried remnants of the Kara Ice Sheet. The influence of permafrost accounts for their preservation. The volume of ground ice contained in these ice bodies amounts to about 10,000 km3, which is 67% of the total volume of present‐day glaciers in the USSR. This type of ground ice ought to be the subject of special glaciological studies. Similar remnants of former ice sheets preserved in permafrost have been discovered in the north of Central Siberia, Alaska, and Canada. All these regions also contain ground ice bodies of segregation, injection, and wedge origin. The occurrence of ground ice and especially of massive, tabular ice bodies creates a range of growing environmental problems with regard to economic development in Western Siber...
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