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Authors: J. T. Andrews (Editor), H. Bergsten (Editor), A. E. Jennings (Editor), W. E. Austin
ISBN-13: 9781897799611, ISBN-10: 1897799616
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Geological Society Publishing House
Date Published: June 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: J. T. Andrews

Book Synopsis

Focuses on ice sheet/ocean interactions, on oceanic climate change during the last deglaciation period and on the high temporal resolution that can be obtained from sediment records at continental margin sites. Includes papers from the northeastern North American continental margin, East Greenland margin, the margins of northwest Europe, the northwest European Arctic and the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. Many of the papers present high-resolution stratigraphic data, supported by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates, which demonstrate the advantages of continental margin records in resolving the palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Ocean and in regional reconstructions of climate change.

	Palaeoceanography of North Atlantic margins: an introduction	1
	Late glacial foraminifera	7
	Abrupt changes in marine conditions, Sunneshine Fiord, eastern Baffin Island, NWT during the last deglacial transition: Younger Dryas and H-0 events	11
	Shelf erosion and glacial ice proximity in the Labrador Sea during and after Heinrich events (H-3 or 4 to H-0) as shown by foraminifera	29
	Palaeoceanographic information derived from acoustic surveys of glaciated continental margins: examples from eastern Canada	51
	Deglaciation of the inner Scotian Shelf, Nova Scotia: correlation of terrestrial and marine glacial events	77
	Rock (mineral)-magnetic properties of post-glacial (16-0.5ka) sediments from the Emerald Basin (Scotian Shelf), Canada	103
	Deep-sea ostracode shell chemistry (Mg:Ca ratios) and Late Quaternary Arctic Ocean history	117
	Late Quaternary glacial history and short-term ice-rafted debris fluctuations along the East Greenland continental margin	135
	Late Quaternary sedimentation along a fjord to shelf (trough) transect, East Greenland (c.68[degree] N)	153
	North Atlantic sea surface conditions during the Younger Dryas cold event	167
	Late glacial Holocene sea surface temperatures and gradients between the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea: implications for the Nordic heat pump	177
	Late glacial sedimentology, foraminifera and stable isotope stratigraphy of the Hebridean continental shelf, northwest Scotland	187
	Marine molluscan proxy data applied to Scottish late glacial and Flandrian sites: strengths and limitations	215
	Late glacial sea level and ocean margin environmental changes interpreted from biostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic studies of isolation basins in northwest Scotland	229
	Late Weichselian environmental changes of the southern Kattegat, Scandinavia, inferred from diatom records	245
	Sedimentological examination of the Late Weichselian sea-level history following deglaciation of northern Denmark	261
	Palaeoceanography on the European arctic margin during the last deglaciation	275
	Deglaciation history and palaeoceanography of the western Spitsbergen margin since the last glacial maximum	289
	Late glacial air temperature, oceanographic and ice sheet interactions in the southern Barents Sea region	303
	Post-glacial environments of the southeastern Barents Sea: foraminiferal evidence	323
	Late Weichselian deglaciation of the Barents Sea and low salinity events in the Norwegian Sea	339
	Palynology as a tool for land-sea correlation: an example from the eastern Mediterranean region	351
	Earth rotation, ocean circulation and palaeoclimate: the North Atlantic European example	359
	Index	371

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