Geological History of the Polar Oceans: Arctic versus Antarctic

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Geological History of Cenozoic Polar Oceans: Arctic Versus Antarctic — an Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Morphology and Plate Tectonics: The Modern Polar Oceans....Pages 11-28
The Opening of the Arctic Ocean....Pages 29-62
On the Tectonic Evolution and Paleoceanographic Significance of the Fram Strait Gateway....Pages 63-76
The Evolution of the Svalbard Margins: Synthesis and New Results....Pages 77-94
The Western Barents Sea during the Cenozoic....Pages 95-118
Structures in Rift — Basin Sediments on the Conjugate Margins of Western Tasmania, South Tasman Rise, and Ross Sea, Antarctica....Pages 119-130
A Fine-Scale Seismic Stratigraphy of the Eastern Margin of the Weddell Sea....Pages 131-161
Some Speculations Regarding the Nature of the Explora-Andenes Escarpment, Weddell Sea....Pages 163-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
A Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice and the Effects of Different Properties on Sea Ice Biota....Pages 173-186
Sea Ice Characteristics and the Role of Sediment Inclusions in Deep-Sea Deposition: Arctic — Antarctic Comparisons....Pages 187-211
Cycles, Rhythms, and Events in Quaternary Arctic and Antarctic Glaciomarine Deposits....Pages 213-244
Cenozoic Glacier Fluctuations in Polar Regions — Terrestrial Records from Antarctica and the North Atlantic Sector of the Arctic....Pages 245-254
Past Changes in Precipitation Rate and Ice Thickness as Derived from Age — Depth Profiles in Ice-Sheets; Application to Greenland and Canadian Arctic Ice Core Records....Pages 255-271
Stability of the Arctic Ocean Ice-Cover and Pleistocene Warming Events: Outlining the Problem....Pages 273-287
Late Weichselian Ice Recession in the Central Barents Sea....Pages 289-307
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Distribution Patterns of Calcareous Foraminifers in Arctic Ocean Sediments....Pages 311-316
Physiographic and Biological Factors Controlling Surface Sediment Distribution in the Fram Strait....Pages 317-335
Norwegian — Iceland Seas: Transfer Functions between Marine Planktic Diatoms and Surface Water Temperature....Pages 337-361
Particle Sedimentation and Productivity in Antarctic Waters of the Atlantic Sector....Pages 363-379
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Sediment Patterns in the Southern Weddell Sea: Filchner Shelf and Filchner Depression....Pages 381-401
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
The Last Deglaciation in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres: A Comparison Based on Oxygen Isotope, Sea Surface Temperature Estimates, and Accelerator 14 C Dating from Deep-Sea Sediments....Pages 405-415
Synthesis of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Coccolith Biochronology and History of North Atlantic Drift Water Influx during the Last 500.000 Years....Pages 417-436
Coccoliths in Sediments of the Eastern Arctic Basin....Pages 437-445
Foraminiferal Assemblages in Sediments from Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean....Pages 447-454
Physical and Acoustic Properties of Arctic Ocean Deep-Sea Sediments: Paleoclimatic Implications....Pages 455-473
High Resolution 10 Be and 230 Th Stratigraphy of Late Quaternary Sediments from the Fram Strait (Core 23235)....Pages 475-487
The Enigma of Oxygen Isotope Stage 5 in the Central Fram Strait....Pages 489-497
Dropstones in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea — Indications of Late Quaternary Circulation Patterns?....Pages 499-518
Glacial to Interglacial Changes in the Isotopic Gradients of Southern Ocean Surface Water....Pages 519-538
Stable Isotope Record and Late Quaternary Sedimentation Rates at the Antarctic Continental Margin....Pages 539-572
Front Matter....Pages 573-573
Evolution of Biosiliceous Sedimentation Patterns — Eocene Through Quaternary: Paleoceanographic Response to Polar Cooling....Pages 575-607
Neogene to Recent Palynostratigraphy of Circum-Arctic Basins: Results of ODP Leg 104, Norwegian Sea, Leg 105, Baffin Bay, and DSDP Site 611, Irminger Sea....Pages 609-646
Miocene to Quaternary Paleoceanography in the Northern North Atlantic: Variability in Carbonate and Biogenic Opal Accumulation....Pages 647-675
Neogene and Pleistocene Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere and Late Miocene — Pliocene Global Ice Volume Fluctuations: Evidence from the Norwegian Sea....Pages 677-705
Southern Ocean Response to the Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation at 2.4 Ma....Pages 707-728
Pliocene — Pleistocene Paleoceanography in the Weddell Sea — Siliceous Microfossil Evidence....Pages 729-759
Polar front Fluctuations and the Upper Gauss to Brunhes Paleooceanographic Record in the Southeast Atlantic Ocean....Pages 761-782
Back Matter....Pages 783-823