Glacial genesis of boulder loam in the north of the Bolshezemelskaya tundra

Two mutually exclusive points of view on the origin of boulder loams are considered, the problem of Genesis, which despite more than a century-long history of the study of Quaternary sediments in the European North-East of Russia, is still debated. Our studies confirmed the importance of a complex lithological research of the Pleistocene sediments to establish their genetic origin. Genetic features of boulder loams characterizing them as moraines of cover continental glaciers are discussed. Examples of a subjective interpretation of published geological facts by adherents of the marinistic concept of the genesis of boulder loam are given.