The diatom flora in the Fram Strait. A comparison with the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary flora in the Norwegian Sea

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Stabell, Bjørg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1987
• Subjects: Arctic; Norwegian Sea; Greenland; Pedersen; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea; north atlantic current; North Atlantic; Polar Research; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2474; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v5i3.6902

High abundances of diatoms were recorded near the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in sediment cores from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea (Stabell 1986 and references therein). Diatom maxima of similar age were recently reported from the northeast Norwegian Sea (Pedersen 1987). Stabell (1986) suggested tha...