Facies system of the Eastern Barents Sea since the last glaciation to present

Marine Geology

Volumn 230, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 275-303

  Murdmaa, Ivar ^a   Ivanova, Elena ^a   Duplessy, Jean Claude ^b   Levitan, Michael ^c   Khusid, Tatyana ^a   Bourtman, Maria ^a   Alekhina, Galina ^a   Alekseeva, Tatyana ^a   Belousov, Michael ^a   Serova, Valentina ^a  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; deglaciation; facies; Holocene; Late Weichselian; sedimentary record

Indexed keywords

BARENTS SEA; HOLOCENE; LATE WEICHSELIAN; SEDIMENTARY RECORD;

CATCHMENTS; CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTS;

CORE ANALYSIS; DEGLACIATION; EVOLUTION; FACIES; LAST GLACIATION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PUSH MORAINE; SCALE READING; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 33746662243     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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