Stratigraphic and Geochemical Expression of Early Cretaceous Environmental Change in Arctic Svalbard

• Main Author: Vickers, Madeleine Larissa
• Other Authors: Price, Gregory, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Plymouth 2017
• Subjects: Stratigraphy; Palaeoclimate; Geochemistry; Sedimentology; Early Cretaceous; PhD; Arctic; Svalbard; Central Basin; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10041

The Arctic is climatically sensitive to global change and therefore climate records from this region are of key importance. Little, however, is known of the state of the Arctic in the traditionally “greenhouse” period of the Cretaceous. Climate conditions are often assumed to have been warm-temperat...