The eastern extent of the Barents-Kara ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum based on seismic-reflection data from the eastern Kara Sea

Polar Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 162-174

  Polyak, Leonid ^a   Niessen, Frank ^b   Gataullin, Valery ^c   Gainanov, Valery ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c GC Environmental   (United States)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Eurasian Arctic margin; Glacigenic sediments; Kara Sea; Last Glacial Maximum; Pleistocene glaciations; Sub bottom profiling

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; DIAMICTON; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; EURASIA; KARA SEA; LAPTEV SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA; TAYMYR; VILKITSKY STRAIT; YENISEI RIVER;

EID: 48049090207     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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