Nares Strait, a major connection between the Arctic Ocean and Baffin Bay, was blocked by coalescent Innuitian and Greenland ice sheets during the last glaciation. This paper focuses on the events and processes leading to the opening of the strait and the environmental response to establishment of the Arctic‐Atlantic throughflow. The study is based on sedimentological, mineralogical and foraminiferal analyses of radiocarbon‐dated cores 2001
Palaeomagnetic investigation of three sediment cores from the Chukchi and Beaufort Sea margins was performed to better constrain the regional chronostratigraphy and to gain insights into sediment magnetic properties at the North American Arctic margin during the Holocene and the preceding deglaciation. Palaeomagnetic analyses reveal that the sediments under study are characterized by low‐coercivity ferrimagnetic minerals (magnetite), mostly in the pseudo‐single domain grain‐size range, and by a strong, stable, well‐defined remanent magnetization (
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10048061
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Boreas
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0300-9483
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 544-564
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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