Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the southern Kara Sea, a Water masses and foraminifera in Kangerlussuaq M.H. Nielsen et al

• Main Authors: Leonid Polyak, Sergei Korsun, Lawrence A. Febo, Vladimir Stanovoy, Tatyana Khusid, Morten Hald, Bjorn Egil Paulsen, David, J. Lubinski
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Kangerlussuaq; Kara Sea
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.541.6870; http://bprc.osu.edu/geo/publications/polyak_etal_JFR_02.pdf

Calcareous foraminifers and hydrographic parameters in 113 bottom samples from the southern Kara Sea were examined to improve the usage of foraminifers as paleoenvironmental proxies for river-dominated high-latitude continental shelves. Foraminif-eral taxa form a succession from near-estuarine to di...