Fig. 6: Overview of sampling sites within the Taba-Ba’astakh cliffs.
From: Arctic speleothems reveal nearly permafrost-free Northern Hemisphere in the late Miocene
A Picture of the Taba-Ba’astakh Cliffs with locations of areas on the cliff where speleothems were located. The cliffs’ height is 120–140 m, and the speleothem fragments that fell from the cliff were collected on the riverbanks STBB-I and STBB-II, with the ship mooring point in between. B Frontal view of speleothem sampling site STBB-4 and STBB-II. C, D Karst caves located on the southern edge of the Taba-Ba’astakh cliffs (about 50–60 m below the top of the cliff. The ice filling in caves begins 10–15 m from the entrance (E). One of the rock fragments with a flowstone attached (STBB-II area) is shown in (F). Speleothems on the cliff at the STBB-4 site include mamillaries (G), flowstone (H, I), stalactites (J) (Photos by Osinzev, A. and Vaks, A.).
