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Arctic ocean sediments : processes, proxies, and paleoenvironment /
Although it is generally accepted that the Arctic Ocean is a very sensitive and important region for changes in the global climate, this region is the last major physiographic province of the earth whose short-and long-term geological history is much less known in comparison to other ocean regions....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; London :
Elsevier Science,
2008.
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| Colección: | Developments in marine geology ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Introduction and Background . 1. Introduction. 2. Modern physiography, hydrology, climate, and sediment input. Part II: Processes and proxies. 3. Glacio-marine sedimentary processes. 4. Proxies used for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in the Arctic Ocean. Part III: The marine-geological record. 5. Modern environment and its record in surface sediments. 6 Quaternary variability of paleoenvironment and its sedimentary record. 7. Mesozoic to Cenozoic palaeoenvironmental records of the high northern latitudes. 8. Open questions and future geoscientific Arctic Ocean research. References. Index.