Sedimentology of the Reykjanes Ridge, Southeast Greenland

• Main Authors: Lackschewitz, Klas Sven, Baumann, Karl-Heinz, Gehrke, B, Wallrabe-Adams, Hans-Joachim, Thiede, Jörn, Bonani, Georges, Endler, Rudolf, Erlenkeuser, Helmut, Heinemeier, Jan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1998
• Subjects: GEOMAR; Giant box corer; GKG; Gravity corer (Kiel type); Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel; KAL; Kasten corer; LO09; LO09/21-2; LO09/23-2; Professor Logachev; REYKJANES-RÜCKEN; SL; SO82; SO82_2-1; SO82_2-2; SO82_4-1; SO82_4-2; SO82_5-1; SO82_5-2; SO82_7-2; Sonne; Greenland; Norwegian Sea; Reykjanes; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.735768; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.735768

Marine records from the Reykjanes Ridge indicate ice sheet variations and abrupt climate changes. One of these records, ice-rafted detritus (IRD), serves as a proxy for iceberg discharges that probably indicates ice sheet fluctuations. The IRD records suggest that iceberg discharge 68,000-10,000 yr...