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The Arctic landscape has experienced many dramatic forms of change due to anthropogenic warming. Large crater‐like forms surrounded by fragmented blocks scattered outward to great distances with precursor mounds appeared in the continuous permafrost zone of the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of Western Siberia. The morphologies of these craters, in addition to the abundant evidence of active and intense...