Paleoenviromental Data from Less-Investigated Polar Regions

• Main Author: Vaikmae, Rein
• Other Authors: AKADEMIYA NAUK ESTONSKOI SSR TARTU INST OF GEOLOGY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Geography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Meteorology; *CLIMATE; *GLACIERS; *GREENLAND; *PERMAFROST; *STABLE ISOTOPES; *POLAR REGIONS; CORES; COVERINGS; DEPTH; ICE; ICE CAPS; INTERVALS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION; PROFILES; RECORDS; REGIONS; SHEETS; TIME; TIME INTERVALS; VARIATIONS; WATER; WEDGES; SYMPOSIA; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; Component Reports; *Paleoenvironmental data; Reconstructions; Antarctic; Arctic; Fairbanks; Greenland; Severnaya Zemlya; Svalbard; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; glaciers; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; wedge*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP007348; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADP007348

The Arctic holds extensive records of past climatic and environmental changes. Stable isotope variations in polar ice are in many cases important records of paleoclimatic information. Deep ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland, reaching back through the last glaciation, have provided valuable info...