Deglacial and Holocene conditions in northernmost Baffin Bay: Sediments, foraminifera, diatoms and stable isotopes

Boreas

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 346-376

  Knudsen, Karen Luise ^a   Stabell, Bjørg ^b   Seidenkrantz, Marit Solveig ^a   Eiríksson, Jón ^c   Blake Jr , Weston ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COOLING; DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; FOSSIL RECORD; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; UPWELLING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 59049093592     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00035.x     Document Type: Article

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