Late Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentation patterns in the western Arctic Ocean

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 5-17

  Polyak, Leonid ^a   Bischof, Jens ^b   Ortiz, Joseph D ^c   Darby, Dennis A ^b   Channell, James E T ^d   Xuan, Chuang ^d   Kaufman, Darrell S ^e   Løvlie, Reidar ^f   Schneider, David A ^g   Eberl, Dennis D ^h   Adler, Ruth E ^a   Council, Edward A ⁱ  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^g IEEE Spectrum   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

ⁱ WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; glaciations; Late Quaternary; sediment stratigraphy; sedimentary environments

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DIAGENESIS; GLACIATION; ICE COVER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 67849129462     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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