Postglacial to Holocene history of the Laptev Sea continental margin: Palaeoenvironmental implications of benthic assemblages

Quaternary International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-60

  Taldenkova, Ekaterina ^a   Bauch, Henning A ^b   Stepanova, Anna ^c   Strezh, Anna ^a   Dem'yankov, Sergei ^a   Ovsepyan, Yaroslav ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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

^c PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIVALVE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; HOLOCENE; OSTRACOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POSTGLACIAL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LAPTEV SEA;

BIVALVIA; CASSIDULINA NEOTERETIS; FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 44249113360     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.031     Document Type: Article

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