Late Pleistocene-early Holocene polychaete borings in NE Spitsbergen and their palaeoecological and climatic implications: An example from the Basissletta area

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-55

  Hanken, Nils Martin ^a   Uchman, Alfred ^b   Jakobsen, Sten Lennart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; BORING ORGANISM; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DOLOMITE; LIMESTONE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POLYCHAETE; POSTGLACIAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; TRACE FOSSIL;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BIVALVIA; POLYCHAETA; SPIONIDA;

EID: 83855162867     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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