Scientific Drilling in the Arctic Ocean: A challenge for the next decades

The modern Arctic Ocean appears to be changing faster than any other region. To understand the potential extent of high latitude climate change, it is necessary to sample the history stored in the sediments filling the basins and covering the ridges of the Arctic Ocean. These sediments have been ima...

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Main Authors: Ruediger Stein, Bernard Coakley
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
area (ODP Leg 151
Thiede
Myhre
Firth
et al
1996). In order to discuss and plan the future of scientific drilling in the Arctic Ocean
an
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Yermak Plateau
Climate change
Fram Strait
Lomonosov Ridge
Yermak plateau
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.452.5973
http://epic.awi.de/25385/1/Stein_ArcticOcean.pdf
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Summary:The modern Arctic Ocean appears to be changing faster than any other region. To understand the potential extent of high latitude climate change, it is necessary to sample the history stored in the sediments filling the basins and covering the ridges of the Arctic Ocean. These sediments have been imaged with seismic reflection data, but, except for the superficial record, which has been piston cored, they have been sampled only on the Lomonosov Ridge in 2004 during the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX-IODP Leg 302; Backman, Moran, McInroy, et al., 2006) and in 1993 in the ice-free waters in the Fram Strait/Yermak Plateau

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