Glacial history and paleoceanography of the southern Yermak Plateau since 132kaBP

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-169

  Chauhan, T ^a,b   Rasmussen, T L ^b   Noormets, R ^a   Jakobsson, M ^c   Hogan, K A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ice rafted debris (IRD); Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ); Planktic and benthic foraminifera; Stable isotopes; Svalbard Barents Sea Ice Sheet (SBIS); Yermak Plateau (YP)

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; ICE SHEET; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS (IRD); MARGINAL ICE ZONE; STABLE ISOTOPES; YERMAK PLATEAUX;

SEA ICE;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORE ANALYSIS; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; ICE MARGIN; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHEET; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MICROFOSSIL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; YERMAK PLATEAU;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84900404561     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.023     Document Type: Article

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