ARCTIC Late Pliocene Paleoecologic Reconstructions Based on Ostracode Assemblages from the Sagavanirktok and Gubik Formations, Alaskan North Slope

• Main Author: Elisabeth M. Brouwers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: Key words; Pliocene; ostracode; Sagavanirktok Formation; Nuwok Member; Gubik Formation; Alaska; North Slope; shallow marine RÉSUMÉ. Des assemblages d’ostracodes de milieu marin peu profond trouvés dans des séd; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Strait; Manning Point; Pacific; Alaska North Slope; Barter Island; North Atlantic; north slope
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.540.6053; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic47-1-16.pdf

ABSTRACT. Shallow-marine ostracode assemblages from upper Pliocene sediments of the upper part of the Sagavanirktok Formation and lower part of the Gubik Formation record the last warm period that occurred before the onset of significant cooling of the Arctic Ocean and the initiation of Northern Hem...