Variability in the length of the sea ice season in the middle eocene arctic

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 727-730

  Stickley, Catherine E ^a   Koç, Nalân ^a,b   Pearce, Richard B ^c   Kemp, Alan E S ^c   Jordan, Richard W ^d   Sangiorgi, Francesca ^e   St John, Kristen ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; BACKSCATTERED ELECTRONS; FIRST-YEAR; ICE REGIME; ICE SEASON; MICRO FABRIC; MICRO LENS; MICROFOSSILS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUE; OPEN WATER; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SUBMILLIMETERS;

DEBRIS; MICROLENSES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

SEA ICE;

DIATOM; EOCENE; FOSSIL; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; MICROFOSSIL; OPEN WATER; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ARCTIC;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; SYNEDROPSIS;

EID: 84866148341     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32976.1     Document Type: Article

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