Late Quaternary contourites and glaciomarine sedimentation in the Fram Strait

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: HOWE, JOHN A., SHIMMIELD, TRACY M., HARLAND, REX, Eyles, Nick
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Fram Strait; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic; Sea ice; Svalbard; Svalbard margin; Yermak plateau; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00897.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-3091.2007.00897.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00897.x

Abstract Two sites in the eastern Fram Strait, the Vestnesa Ridge and the Yermak Plateau, have been surveyed and sampled providing a depositional record over the last glacial‐interglacial cycle. The Fram Strait is the only deep‐water connection from the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic and contain...