A Holocene cryptotephra record from the Chukchi margin: the first tephrostratigraphic study in the Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Ponomareva, Vera, Polyak, Leonid, Portnyagin, Maxim, Abbott, Peter, Davies, Siwan
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Darby; Pacific; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26670/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26670/1/2014_Ponomareva-etal_PAST_abstract.pdf

Developing geochronology for sediments in the Arctic Ocean and its continental margins is an important but challenging task complicated by multiple problems. In particular, the Chukchi/Beaufort margin, a critical area for reconstructing paleoceanographic conditions in the Pacific sector of the Arcti...