Central Arctic surface ocean environment during the past 80,000 years

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-204

  NØrgaard Pedersen, Niels ^a   Spielhagen, Robert F ^a   Thiede, Jorn ^a,b   Kassens, Heidemarie ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0031659527     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97PA03409     Document Type: Article

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