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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Bremen, Germany, October 10-14, 1988

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Author:   U. Bleil ,  Jörn Thiede
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1990 ed.
Volume:   308
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.410kg
ISBN:  

9780792307396

ISBN 10:   0792307399
Pages:   823
Publication Date:   30 June 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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The Geological History of Cenozoic Polar Oceans: Arctic Versus Antarctic — An Introduction.- Physiography and Plate Tectonics of the Polar Deep-Sea Basins and Their Continental Margins.- Morphology and Plate Tectonics: The Modern Polar Oceans.- The Opening of the Arctic Ocean.- On the Tectonic Evolution and Paleoceanographic Significance of the Fram Strait Gateway.- The Evolution of the Svalbard Margins: Synthesis and New Results.- The Western Barents Sea During the Cenozoic.- Structures in Rift-Basin Sediments on the Conjugate Margins of Western Tasmania, South Tasman Rise, and Ross Sea, Antarctica.- A Fine-Scale Seismic Stratigraphy of the Eastern Margin of the Weddell Sea.- Some Speculations Regarding the Nature of the Explora-Andenes Escarpment, Weddell Sea.- Polar Ice — Covers as Geological Agents.- A Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice and the Effects of Different Properties on Sea Ice Biota.- Sea Ice Characteristics and the Role of Sediment Inclusions in Deep-Sea Deposition: Arctic — Antarctic Comparisons.- Cycles, Rhythms, and Events in Quaternary Arctic and Antarctic Glaciomarine Deposits.- Cenozoic Glacier Fluctuations in Polar Regions — Terrestrial Records From Antarctica and the North Atlantic Sector of the Arctic.- Past Changes in Precipitation Rate and Ice Thickness as Derived From Age — Depth Profiles in Ice-Sheets; Application to Greenland and Canadian Arctic Ice Core Records.- Stability of the Arctic Ocean Ice-Cover and Pleistocene Warming Events: Outlining the Problem.- Late Weichselian Ice Recession in the Central Barents Sea.- Modern Depositional Environments of Polar Oceans.- Distribution Patterns of Calcareous Foraminifers in Arctic Ocean Sediments.- Physiographic and Biologic Factors Controlling Surface Sediment Distribution in the Fram Strait.- Norwegian — Iceland Seas: Transfer Functions Between Marine Planktic Diatoms and Surface Water Temperature.- Particle Sedimentation and Productivity in Antarctic Waters of the Atlantic Sector.- Sediment Patterns in the Southern Weddell Sea: Filchner Shelf and Filchner Depression.- Quaternary History and Paleoceanography of Polar Oceans.- The Last Deglaciation in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres: A Comparison Based on Oxygen Isotope, Sea Surface Temperature Estimates, and Accelerator 14C Dating From Deep-Sea Sediments.- Synthesis of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Coccolith Biochronology and History of North Atlantic Drift Water Influx During the Last 500.000 Years.- Coccoliths in Sediments of the Eastern Arctic Basin.- Foraminiferal Assemblages in Sediments From Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean.- Physical and Acoustic Properties of Arctic Ocean Deep-Sea Sediments: Paleoclimatic Implications.- High Resolution 10Be and 230Th Stratigraphy of Late Quaternary Sediments From the Fram Strait (Core 23235).- The Enigma of Oxygen Isotope Stage 5 in the Central Fram Strait.- Dropstones in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea — Indications of Late Quaternary Circulation Patterns?.- Glacial to Interglacial Changes in the Isotopic Gradients of Southern Ocean Surface Water.- Stable Isotope Record and Late Quaternary Sedimentation Rates at the Antarctic Continental Margin.- Pre-Quaternary Records of Polar Ocean History.- Evolution of Biosiliceous Sedimentation Patterns — Eocene through Quaternary: Paleoceanographic Response to Polar Cooling.- Neogene to Recent Palynostratigraphy of Circum-Arctic Basins: Results of ODP Leg 104, Norwegian Sea, Leg 105, Baffin Bay, and DSDP Site 611, Irminger Sea.- Miocene to Quaternary Paleoceanography in the Northern North Atlantic: Variability in Carbonate and Biogenic Opal Accumulation.- Neogene and Pleistocene Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere and Late Miocene — Pliocene Global Ice Volume Fluctuations: Evidence From the Norwegian Sea.- Southern Ocean Response to the Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation at 2.4 Ma.- Pliocene — Pleistocene Paleoceanography in the Weddell Sea — Siliceous Microfossil Evidence.- Polar Front Fluctuations and the Upper Gauss to Brunhes Paleoceanographic Record in the Southeast Atlantic Ocean.- Authors Index.

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