Provenance and sea‐ice transportation of Mid‐Pliocene and Quaternary sediments, Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean (ODP Site 911)

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: JUNTTILA, JUHO, LAHTINEN, TAIJA, STRAND, KARI
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yermak Plateau; Sea ice; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00016.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.2007.00016.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00016.x

In this study, the clay and heavy mineral analysis of ODP Site 911 sediments is used to investigate the sources and transport mechanisms (sea ice and oceanic currents) of sediments in the Arctic Ocean during the Mid to Late Pliocene (3.10–2.78 Myr) and upper Quaternary (800 kyr to the present). The...