IODP Expedition 302, Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): A First Look at the Cenozoic Paleoceanography of the Central Arctic Ocean

Introduction The behavior and inf luence of the A rct ic Oceanthroughout the course of the global Cenozoic climateevolution have been virtually unknown. Only the uppermostfew meters of the Arctic’s sediment record, representingHolocene and late Pleistocene times, have been retrievedfrom ridges throu...

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Published in:Scientific Drilling
Main Authors: the IODP Expedition 302 Scientists, David McInroy, Kathryn Moran, Jan Backman
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2005
Subjects:
IODP Expedition 302
Geology
QE1-996.5
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Canada
Alpha Ridge
alpha ridge
canada basin
Central Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.1.02.2005
https://doaj.org/article/8204d7c02d864ebfa19fd238f9355d4f
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Summary:Introduction The behavior and inf luence of the A rct ic Oceanthroughout the course of the global Cenozoic climateevolution have been virtually unknown. Only the uppermostfew meters of the Arctic’s sediment record, representingHolocene and late Pleistocene times, have been retrievedfrom ridges through a limited number of short piston,gravity, and box cores. Even less of the thick sedimentsequences, ~6 km in the Canada Basin and ~3 km in theNansen Basin(Grantz et al., 1990; Jokat et al., 1995), restingon the Arctic Ocean’s abyssal plains, have been cored.Prior to the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX), informationon Neogene or Paleogene conditions in the central Arcticwas limited to a 1.6-m interval in a 3.6-m-long T-3 gravitycore raised from the Alpha Ridge (Clark, 1974), providingthe sole evidence for marine conditions no older than themiddle Eocene in the central Arctic (Bukry, 1984).

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