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Late Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Paleoceanology of the Barents Sea

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Until recently stratigraphical studies of the Arctic seas were based on surface seafloor sediments collected with gravity cores. We now have data from sparker profiles and drill cores of the entire unconsolidated sediment sequence above the upper regional unconformity (average 25–30 m).

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Zarkhidze, V.S., Samoilovich, Y.G. (1989). Late Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Paleoceanology of the Barents Sea. In: Herman, Y. (eds) The Arctic Seas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0677-1_25

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