14C ages, grain size distribution and foraminifer abundance of sediments from the Barents Sea shelf

• Main Author: Krapivner, R B
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: Archive of Ocean Data; ARCOD; Arctic; Barents Sea; Foraminifera*
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.793171; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793171

The origin of friable sediments blanketing the Barents Sea shelf is considered. It is shown that their characteristic seismoacoustic record patterns reflect low degree of diagenetic transformations and indicates continuous sedimentation. According to traditional views, this single sedimentary comple...