Bulk components and ice rafted debris of five sediment cores of the Sophia Basin, Arctic Ocean ...

• Main Authors: Winkelmann, Daniel, Schäfer, Christoph J, Stein, Ruediger, Mackensen, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: Gravity corer; Kasten corer; ARK-XX/3; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Andreas; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.695687; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.695687

Periods of enhanced terrigenous input to the ocean's basins of the North Atlantic have been reported for the last glacial period. We present a set of new sediment cores recovered from the Sophia Basin north of Svalbard which exhibit wide spread IRD layers reflecting enhanced terrigenous input t...