Sedimentological investigations of a sediment core profile from the continental slope of the South Orkney Islands

Sediment patterns such as texture, composition, and facies from three selected areas of the Antarctic continental margin of the Weddell Sea are discussed in relation to environmental variations of the Quaternary hydrosphere and kryosphere. Advance and retreat of ice shelves as well as oscillations in sea ice coverage are reflected by particular sediment facies. The distribution of ice-rafted detritus tracks the Antarctic Coastal Current, and the Weddell Sea Bottom water contour current can be recognized by its distinctive winnowing and erosion pattern. Distribution and abundance of biogenic sediment components are mainly controlled by duration of sea ice coverage reflecting the long-term climatic evolution.

(Table 1) Age determination of sediment cores south of the Faeroe Islands

A study was made of three cores from the Faeroe-Shetland gateway, based on planktonic foraminifera, oxygen isotopes, accelerator mass spectrometry 14C dates, magnetic susceptibility, and counts of ice rafted debris (IRD). The data, covering the period 30-10 ka, show that during the Last Glacial Maximum the Arctic Front occupied a position close to the Faeroes, allowing a persisting inflow of Atlantic surface water into the Faeroe-Shetland Channel. The oceanographic environment during deposition of two IRD layers is influenced by Atlantic surface water masses during the lower IRD layer, with transport of icebergs from N-NW. Polar surface water conditions prevailed only during deposition of the upper IRD layer. There is no indication of surface meltwater influence in the region during the deglaciation, but there is a persistent influence of Atlantic surface water masses in the region. Thus we conclude that during almost the entire period (30-10 ka) the Faeroe-Shetland Channel was a gateway for transport of Atlantic surface water toward the Norwegian Sea.

List of New Guinea birds; a systematic and faunal list of the birds of New Guinea and adjacent islands.

Mode of access: Internet.

A handbook for travellers in central Italy, including Tuscany, the Tuscan islands, Umbria, the Marches, and part of the late patrimony of St. Peter.

Maps (2 folded leaves) in pocket.

Archeology of the Virgin Islands /

"Bibliographical notes": p. 98-100.

Sandusky flora. A catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns growing without cultivation, in Erie county, Ohio, and the peninsula and islands of Ottawa county,

"Published by the Academy of science, May, 1899."

Mapping of the countries in Danubian and Adriatic Basins /

Project no. MO-011.

Birds of the islands off the coast of southern California, by Alfred Brazier Howell

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Report of the Governor General of the Philippine Islands to the Secretary of War.

Description based on: 1917.

A selective listing of monographs and government documents on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in the Library of Congress /

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Bibliography of the Philippine islands ...

pt. I. A list of books (with references to periodicals) on the Philippine Islands in the Library of Congress, by A. P. C. Griffin ... with chronological list of maps in the Library of Congress, by P. Lee Phillips.--pt. II. Biblioteca filipina ó sea catálogo razonado de todos los impresos, tanto insulares como extranjeros ... por T. H. Pardo de Tavera.

In the Andamans and Nicobars; the narrative of a cruise in the schooner "Terrapin", with notices of the islands, their fauna, ethnology, etc.,

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Birds of the Philippine Islands : Siquijor, Mount Malindang, Bohol, and Samar /

Bibliography: p. 440-441.

Report of a survey of the fish poisoning problem in the Marshall Islands /

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Report on forestry in the trust territory of the Pacific Islands.

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