Late-and postglacial environments in the northern Barents Sea west of Franz Josef Land

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Polyak, Leonid, Solheim, Anders
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1994
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Franz Josef Land; Ice Sheet; Polar Research; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1978; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v13i2.6693

A lithological and micropaleontological study of three sediment cores from the western Franz Josef Land area, two of them AMS l4C dated, provides new data on the environmental evolution of the northern Barents Sea during and after the last deglaciation. Glacimarine conditions commenced in the deep F...