A new Late Weichselian and Holocene marine chronology for the western Svalbard slope 30,000-0 cal years BP

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1301-1312

  Jessen, Simon P ^a   Rasmussen, Tine L ^a   Nielsen, Tove ^b   Solheim, Anders ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONTROL; ATLANTIC WATER; BARENTS SEA; DEGLACIATIONS; FINE GRAINED; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; GLACIGENIC DEBRIS FLOWS; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; HOLOCENES; ICE RAFTED DETRITUS; ICE SHEET; MASS TRANSPORT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; POLAR WATERS; SEDIMENT CORE; SHELF EDGES; SVALBARD; WATER DEPTH;

DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SEA ICE; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITION; DIATOM; GLACIAL DEBRIS; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS TRANSFER; MELTWATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT CORE; SHELF BREAK; SPECIES RICHNESS; TURBIDITY; WATER DEPTH; WEICHSELIAN;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77950691682     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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