Cenozoic Arctic Ocean Climate History: Some Highlights from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Arctic Coring Expedition

Developments in Marine Geology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2014, Pages 259-293

  Stein, Ruediger ^a   Weller, Petra ^a   Backman, Jan ^b   Brinkhuis, Henk ^c,d   Moran, Kate ^e   Pälike, Heiko ^f  

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

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic ocean; Cenozoic; Climate history; IODP; Paleoceanography; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919480905     PISSN: 15725480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-62617-2.00011-6     Document Type: Chapter

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