Palaeoceanographic changes in the northern Barents Sea during the last 16000 years - new constraints on the last deglaciation of the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 798-813

  Kristensen, Dorthe Klitgaard ^a   Rasmussen, Tine L ^b   Koç, Nalan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; MARINE SEDIMENT; MELTWATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BOREAS; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84879687247     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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