... investigations on the Kara Sea ice sheet Research over the past decade in the Pechora Basin, west of the Polar Urals, places the last glacial advance from the Kara Sea prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (Mangerud et al., 2001) probably ...
... ice sheet. At present we consider the first explanation to be the most likely. Three examples of the structural architecture along the section on northern Kanin. DE1 to DE3 probably represents stacking of the same till unit and ...
... parts were separated into the East European Craton (Fennoscandia, northern Europe, and parts of Russia west of the Ural Mountains) and the Siberian craton (parts of Russia east of the Ural Mountains to the Verkhoyansk fold belt), in ...
... Seas, particularly during spring. Such data have rarely been sampled or measured before. Radioactive isotopes (natural and anthropogenic) have been extensively used as tracers in establishing circulation patterns and ventilation rates in ...
... Current. The flow rate and the properties of both the upper and the intermediate waters display significant natural variability. Some of this variability is the result of changing Arctic Ocean water properties, while some is due to ...
... phytoplankton and bacterioplankton. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 16, 205–216. Pace, N.R. 1996. New perspectives on the natural microbial world: molecular microbial ecology. ASM News 62, 463–470.
... samples will also be investigated for compounds thought to be of anthropogenic origin, but that may actually be natural products. As there are virtually no data from the area any data from this expedition will help fill in important ...
... trends in ozone depletion caused by atmospheric pollution most likely occur on much shorter time scales than the “natural” transitions that have been documented during the evolution of the earth’s atmosphere. Nowadays, an increased UVBR ...
... Geology 169, 107–129. Murchison, R.I., Verneuil, E. de and Keyserling, A. von, 1845. The geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains. John Murray, London, 700. Nevessky, E.N., Medvedev V.S. and Kalinenko.,V.V. 1977. White Sea: Sedimentation ...
... we developed procedures for coupling the surface ocean carbon and iron stocks to onboard measurements of the natural 234Th ”settling clock”. Long-lived radioisotope systems have the potential to apportion the sources of ...
... one of the main barriers to improving future climate predictions arises from the difficulty of separating the natural and man-made components of the particles on which cloud drops form (cloud condensation nuclei, CCN) or on which ice ...
... and atmospheric gases captured in air bubbles, ice and snow profiles from the Antarctic continent provide a natural archive of atmospheric composition. This archive is important for our understanding of past climate and its variations. ...
... many other similar historic sites in Spitsbergen, is being affected by tourism. This is ultimately a matter of cultural resource protection. Field-work The Origo arrived at Vitön on 29 August after a ca. 44-hour cruise from Longyearbyen. ...
... in the ground dating back to before 1946 shall not be moved, they are protected by the regulations concerning cultural heritage. The natural deterioration process will determine how long the artefacts will exist. This policy has probably ...
... shallow seas of the Barents Shelf. Indeed, the on-land geology, both shallow and deep, of the Timan-Pechora-Polar Urals region, in combination with off-shore geophysical data, provides the essential platform for interpreting the Barents ...
... it is the systematic study of past material remains with the purpose of generating knowledge of human social and cultural behaviour. Marine Archaeology is, according to this definition, a special branch of archaeology specialising in human ...
... the East European cratons in the late Palaeozoic (about 350 million years ago) resulted in the development of the Uralides, a mountain belt that defines the boundary between Asia and Europe today. One of the most prominent features of ...
The “Eurasian Ice Sheets” project is mainly financed by the EU and is also assisted by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It works under the umbrella of the European ...
... is hard to explain with an ice sheet moving southwards. An alternative hypotheses is an ice sheet centered over the Ural mountains. Our first results from Yamal Peninsula have recently been published (Forman, lngolfsson et al. 1999) ...
Exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources in the polar regions is among the most ancient of human motives for finding the means and taking the risk of ...
