Sediment record from the western Arctic Ocean with an improved Late Quaternary age resolution: HOTRAX core HLY0503-8JPC, Mendeleev Ridge

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 18-29

  Adler, Ruth E ^a,b   Polyak, Leonid ^a   Ortiz, Joseph D ^c   Kaufman, Darrell S ^d   Channell, James E T ^e   Xuan, Chuang ^e   Grottoli, Andréa G ^b   Sellén, Emma ^f   Crawford, Kevin A ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; glaciations; last interglacial; Late Quaternary; Mendeleev Ridge; sediment stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GLACIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; LOMONOSOV RIDGE; MENDELEYEV RIDGE;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 67849124172     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.026     Document Type: Article

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