Dynamics of the Barents-Kara ice sheet as revealed by quartz sand grain microtextures of the late Pleistocene Arctic Ocean sediments

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 25-26, 2010, Pages 3583-3589

  Strand, Kari ^a   Immonen, Ninna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; DEEP MARINE SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; INTERGLACIATION; LAPTEV SEA; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MICRO TEXTURE; QUARTZ GRAINS; QUARTZ SAND; SAND GRAINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SHELF BREAK; SILTY CLAY; SURFACE TEXTURES; TIME WINDOWS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; FRACTURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; QUARTZ; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TEXTURES;

SAND;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; QUATERNARY; SEA ICE; SHELF BREAK;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 78049431655     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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