Sentences with phrase «of yedoma»

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One type of permafrost called yedoma is full of grass roots, bones, and other biological material.

This task is made easier by not quantifying the likely magnitude of CH4 deposits in the Arctic, not specifying CH4 sources (hydrates, sedimentary gas, yedoma and resumption of biota decay), and not examining the differing vulnerability of those deposits to global warming in general and Arctic amplification in particular.

On - shore Siberian CH4 sources comprise permafrost including yedoma (1,000 Gtonnes) and resumption of biota decay (700 Gtonnes), mostly within the top 5 metres of land covered by continuous permafrost.

Scientists are studying how carbon - rich permafrost known as yedoma acts much like frozen vegetables to hungry microbes — and is becoming an additional source of heat - trapping gases.