Towards a better (litho-) stratigraphy and reconstruction of quaternary paleoenvironment in the Amerasian basin (arctic ocean)

Polarforschung

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-121

  Stein, Ruediger ^a   Matthiessen, Jens ^a   Niessen, Frank ^a   Krylov, Alexey ^b   Nam, Seung Il ^c   Bazhenova, Evgenia ^a,d  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b All Russian Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources (VNII OKEANGE OLOGIA)   (Russian Federation)

^c Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CORE ANALYSIS; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 78149314228     PISSN: 00322490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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