Arctic ocean evidence for late Quaternary initiation of northern Eurasian ice sheets

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 783-786

  Spielhagen, Robert F ^a   Bonani, Georges ^b   Eisenhauer, Anton ^c   Frank, Martin ^d   Frederichs, Thomas ^e   Kassens, Heidemarie ^a   Kubik, Peter W ^b   Mangini, Augusto ^d   Nørgaard Pedersen, Niels ^a   Nowaczyk, Norbert R ^f   Schäper, Stefan ^d   Stein, Ruediger ^g   Thiede, Jörn ^a   Tiedemann, Ralf ^a   Wahsner, Monika ^g  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; STRATIGRAPHY;

FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; LATE QUATERNARY; LOMONOSOV RIDGES; MULTIPARAMETERS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT;

SEDIMENTS;

FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; CHRONOLOGY; ICE SHEET INITIATION; ICE SHEETS; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LOMONOSOV RIDGE; SIBERIA;

EID: 0031411087     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0783:AOEFLQ>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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