Benthic foraminifera in the marginal Arctic Ocean ...

• Main Authors: Wollenburg, Jutta Erika, Knies, Jochen, Mackensen, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2004
• Subjects: Giant box corer; MiniCorer; Gravity corer Kiel type; MultiCorer; Kasten corer; Multiple opening/closing net; ARK-VIII/2; ARK-VIII/3; ARK-IX/4; ARK-XIII/2; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Yermak Plateau; Foraminifera*; Ice Sheet; Planktonic foraminifera; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.728235; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.728235

Analyses of benthic foraminifera in sediment cores taken at about 1000 m water depth at the Yermak Plateau and the Barents Sea slope, adjacent to the position of the ice-sheet edge during the Last Glacial Maximum, show that paleoproductivity was reduced to about a third of its present level during p...