Arctic ocean sediment texture and the Pleistocene climate cycle

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985 · Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States)

OSTI ID:6646806

Clark, D L; Morris, T H

Arctic Ocean sediment texture accurately reflects the Plio-Pleistocene climate cycle. The precision of paleoclimate interpretation is improved when deglaciation is recognized as a distinct climate stage, overlapping both glacial and interglacial stages, and for the later Pleistocene, perhaps never completed. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy and foraminifera productivity are out of phase but can be understood in the context of the transitional nature of the glacial, deglacial and interglacial climate stages of the Arctic Ocean.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6646806
• Report Number(s): CONF-8510489-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States) Journal Volume: 17
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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58 GEOSCIENCES
580100* -- Geology & Hydrology-- (-1989)
ANIMALS
ARCTIC OCEAN
CENOZOIC ERA
FORAMINIFERA
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGY
GLACIERS
INVERTEBRATES
ISOTOPES
MICROORGANISMS
OXYGEN ISOTOPES
PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
PALEONTOLOGY
PLEISTOCENE EPOCH
POPULATION DENSITY
PRODUCTIVITY
PROTOZOA
QUATERNARY PERIOD
SARCODINA
SEAS
SEDIMENTS
STRATIGRAPHY
SURFACE WATERS