A shift in heavy and clay mineral provenance indicates a middle Miocene onset of a perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean

Paleoceanography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Krylov, Alexey A ^a,b   Andreeva, Irina A ^a   Vogt, Christoph ^c   Backman, Jan ^d   Krupskaya, Viktoria V ^e   Grikurov, Garrik E ^a   Moran, Kathryn ^f   Shoji, Hitoshi ^b  

^a VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA   (Russian Federation)

^b KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; CLINOPYROXENE; HEAVY MINERAL; ICE COVER; MIOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 45449095930     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001497     Document Type: Article

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