Abundance of calcareous nannofossils in sediments of the Fram Strait, supplement to: Gard, Gunilla (1987): Late Quaternary calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and sedimentation patterns: Fram Strait, Arctica. Paleoceanography, 2(5), 519-529

Sediment cores from the Fram Strait are dated by means of calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and are shown to represent, at the most, the last 300 kyr (oxygen isotope stages 1-8). Differences in sedimentation rates are mainly controlled by the bottom topography and the intensity of ice-rafted de...

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Main Author: Gard, Gunilla
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 1987
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.735010
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.735010
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Summary:Sediment cores from the Fram Strait are dated by means of calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and are shown to represent, at the most, the last 300 kyr (oxygen isotope stages 1-8). Differences in sedimentation rates are mainly controlled by the bottom topography and the intensity of ice-rafted deposition. Sedimentation rates are normally in the order of a few centimeters per kiloyear in the central Fram Strait but increase to over 10 cm/kyr in cores located on the continental slope. The highest sediment accumulation rates occurred on the shelf (several tens of centimeters per kiloyear).