Geological History of the Polar Oceans Arctic versus Antarctic [Hardcover]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Bremen, Germany, October 10-14, 1988The Geological History of Cenozoic Polar Oceans: Arctic Versus Antarctic  An Introduction.- Physiography and Plate Tectonics of the Polar Deep-Sea Basins and Their Continental Margins.- Morphology and Plate Tectonics: The Modern Polar Oceans.- The Opening of the Arctic Ocean.- On the Tectonic Evolution and Paleoceanographic Significance of the Fram Strait Gateway.- The Evolution of the Svalbard Margins: Synthesis and New Results.- The Western Barents Sea During the Cenozoic.- Structures in Rift-Basin Sediments on the Conjugate Margins of Western Tasmania, South Tasman Rise, and Ross Sea, Antarctica.- A Fine-Scale Seismic Stratigraphy of the Eastern Margin of the Weddell Sea.- Some Speculations Regarding the Nature of the Explora-Andenes Escarpment, Weddell Sea.- Polar Ice  Covers as Geological Agents.- A Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice and the Effects of Different Properties on Sea Ice Biota.- Sea Ice Characteristics and the Role of Sediment Inclusions in Deep-Sea Deposition: Arctic  Antarctic Comparisons.- Cycles, Rhythms, and Events in Quaternary Arctic and Antarctic Glaciomarine Deposits.- Cenozoic Glacier Fluctuations in Polar Regions  Terrestrial Records From Antarctica and the North Atlantic Sector of the Arctic.- Past Changes in Precipitation Rate and Ice Thickness as Derived From Age  Depth Profiles in Ice-Sheets; Application to Greenland and Canadian Arctic Ice Core Records.- Stability of the Arctic Ocean Ice-Cover and Pleistocene Warming Events: Outlining the Problem.- Late Weichselian Ice Recession in the Central Barents Sea.- Modern Depositional Environments of Polar Oceans.- Distribution Patterns of Calcareous Foraminifers in Arctic Ocean Sediments.- Physiographic and Biologic Factors Controlling Surface Sediment Distribution in the Fram Strait.- Norwegian  Iceland Seas: Transfer Functions Between Marine Planktic Diatoms and Surface Water Temperaturl³µ