Holocene sea-ice conditions and circulation at the Chukchi-Alaskan margin, Arctic Ocean, inferred from biomarker proxies

Holocene

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1810-1821

  Polyak, Leonid ^a   Belt, Simon T ^b   Cabedo Sanz, Patricia ^b   Yamamoto, Masanobu ^c   Park, Yu Hyeon ^c,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

biomarker proxies; Chukchi Sea; Holocene; IP25; sea ice history; western Arctic

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; COASTAL CURRENT; DEGLACIATION; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ETHER; GYRE; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT CORE; STEROL; TERPENE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT; BERING STRAIT; CHUKCHI SEA; NORTH CAROLINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84975753986     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683616645939     Document Type: Article

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