Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental evolution of the Murchisonfjorden area, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

• Main Author: Kubischta, Frauke
• Other Authors: Lloyd, Jeremy M., University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Geology, Helsingin yliopisto, matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, geotieteiden ja maantieteen laitos, Helsingfors universitet, matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, institutionen för geovetenskaper och geografi, Salonen, Veli-Pekka, Kaakinen, Anu, Knudsen, Karen Luise
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Helsingin yliopisto 2011
• Subjects: paleontologia; Murchisonfjorden; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard; glacier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/27377

The purpose of this study was to establish the palaeoenvironmental conditions during the late Quaternary in Murchisonfjorden, Nordaustlandet, based on foraminiferal assemblage compositions, and to determine the onset and termination of the Weichselian glaciations. The foraminiferal assemblage compos...