Late Pliocene Paleoecologic Reconstructions Based on Ostracode Assemblages from the Sagavanirktok and Gubik Formations, Alaskan North Slope

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Brouwers, Elisabeth M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1994
• Subjects: Bottom sediments; Climate change; Evolution (Biology); Extinction; Geological time; Ocean temperature; Ostracoda; Palaeohydrology; Palaeontology; Pliocene epoch; Stratigraphy; Water masses; Alaska; Northern; Arctic Ocean; Barter Island; Bering Sea; Camden Bay region; North Atlantic Ocean; Arctic; Bering Strait; Manning Point; Pacific; Alaska North Slope; Arctique*; Détroit de Béring; North Atlantic; north slope
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64323

Shallow-marine ostracode assemblages from upper Pliocene sediments of the upper part of the Sagavanirktok Formation and lower part of the Gubik Formation record the last warm period that occurred before the onset of significant cooling of the Arctic Ocean and the initiation of Northern Hemisphere co...