Late Quaternary history of northern Russia and adjacent shelves-a synopsis

• Main Authors: Eiliv Larsen, Svend Funder, Jo, Rn Thiede
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Boreas; Kara Sea; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.462.7088; http://lin.irk.ru/pdf/6714.pdf

shelves – a synopsis. Boreas, Vol. 28, pp. 6–11. Oslo. ISSN 0300-9483. This synopsis highlights some of the main results presented in this issue of Boreas. The collection of papers deals with ice sheet reconstruction in space and time, isostatic and eustatic response to deglaciation, land to shelf sediment interaction, and Eemian and Holocene environmental variations. The most significant new re-sults are that the last glacial maximum of the Kara Sea and Barents Sea ice sheets were both much smaller and much older than in most previous hypotheses. This puts new constraints on, for example, climate and ice sheet linkages, ice sheet interactions (Scandinavian–Barents Sea–Kara Sea), and land–ocean riverine input through time.