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Acknowledgements
This study was performed within the bilateral Russian-German multidisciplinary research
project "System Laptev Sea". We would like to thank R. Stein for improving the manuscript
and for generous support. We thank the reviewers J. Bischoff and R.F. Spielhagen for
numerous constructive suggestions and comments. The financial supports by the Alfred
Wegener Institute and the German Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology
(BMBF) are gratefully acknowledged. This is contribution No. 1371 of the Alfred-WegenerInstitute for Polar and Marine Research.
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Hermel, J. (1995) Sedimentpetrographische Untersuchungen an FluBsedimenten der Lena (Yakutsk - Laptev-See),
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Kassens, H. and V. Karpiy (1994) Russian German Cooperation: The Transdrift I Expedition to the Laptev Sea.
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Kassens, H. (1995) Laptev Sea System: Expeditions in 1994. Reports on Polar Res., 182, 195 pp.
Kempema, E.W., E. Reimnitz and P.W. Barnes (1989) Sea-ice sediment entrainment and rafting in the Arctic. J.
Sed. Petrology, 59, 308-317.
Lapina, N. N. (1965) The determination of distribution paths of sediments, based on mineralogical
investigations of marine deposits (example Laptev Sea). Uchennye Zapiski NIIGA. Ser. Region. Geol., 7,
139-157 (in Russian).
Lisitzin, A. P. (1996) Oceanic Sedimentation. American Geophysical Union, Washington, 400 pp.
Luepke, G. and E. Escowitz (1989) Grain-Size, Heavy-Mineral, and Geochemical Analyses of Sediments from
the Chuckchi Sea, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1896, 8 pp.
Mange, M. A. and H.F.W. Maurer (1991) Schwerminerale in Farbe. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 148 pp.
Naugler, F.P. (1967) Recent sediments of the East Siberian Sea. Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington, 70
pp.
275
Acknowledgements
This study was performed within the bilateral Russian-German multidisciplinary research
project "System Laptev Sea". We would like to thank R. Stein for improving the manuscript
and for generous support. We thank the reviewers J. Bischoff and R.F. Spielhagen for
numerous constructive suggestions and comments. The financial supports by the Alfred
Wegener Institute and the German Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology
(BMBF) are gratefully acknowledged. This is contribution No. 1371 of the Alfred-WegenerInstitute for Polar and Marine Research.
References
Abelmann, A. (1992) Diatom assemblages in Arctic sea ice - indicator for ice drift pathways. Deep Sea Res., 39
(2), 525-538.
Behrends, M., B. Peregovich and R. Stein (1996) Terrigenous sediment supply into the Arctic Ocean: Heavy
mineral distribution in the Laptev Sea. In: Surface-sediment composition and sedimentary processes in the
Central Arctic Ocean and along the Eurasian Continental Margin, R. Stein, G. Ivanov. M. Levitan and K.
Fahl (eds.), Reports on Polar Res., 212, 37-42.
Boenigk, W. (1983) Schwermineralanalyse. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 158 pp.
Darby, D.A., A.S. Naidu, T.e. Mowatt and G. Jones (1989) Sediment composition and sedimentary processes
in the Arctic Ocean. In: The Arctic Seas - Climatology, Oceanography, Geology, and Biology, Herman, Y.
(ed.), van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 657-720.
Dethlef, D., D. Niirnberg, E. Reimnitz, M. Saarso and Y. P. Savchenko (1993) East Siberian Arctic Region
Expedition '92: The Laptev Sea - Its Significance for Arctic Sea ice Formation and Transpolar Sediment
Flux. Reports on Polar Res., 120, 3-37.
Dethlef, D. (1995) Die Laptevsee - eine Schliisselregion fiir den Fremdstoffeintrag in das arktische Meereis.
Ph.D. thesis, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel.
Eicken, H., T. Viehoff, T. Martin, J. Kolatschek, V. Alexandrov and E. Reimnitz (1995) Studies of clean
andsediment-laden ice in the Laptev Sea. In: Russian-German Cooperation: The Laptev Sea System, Kassens,
H., D. Piepenburg, J. Thiede, L. Timokhov, H.-W. Hubberten and S. M. Priamikov (eds.). Reports on Polar
Res., 176, 62-70.
Eicken, H., E. Reimnitz, T. Alexandrov, T. Martin, H. Kassens and T. Viehoff (1997) Sea-ice processes in the
Laptev Sea and their importance for sediment export. Cont. Shelf. Res., 17 (2), 205-233.
Fessenden, F.W. (1959) Removal of heavy liquid separates from glass centrifuge tubes. J. Sed. Petrol., 29, 269280.
Fiitterer, D.K. (1992) ARCTIC '91: The Expedition ARK-VIIU3 of RV "Polarstern" in 1991. Reports on Polar
Res., 107,267 pp.
Fiitterer, D.K. (1994) The expedition ARCTIC93, Leg ARK-IX/4 of RV "Polarstern" 1993. Reports on Polar
Res., 149, 244 pp.
Gordeev, V.V. and I.S. Sidorov (1993) Concentrations of major elements and their outflow into the Laptev Sea
by the Lena River. Mar. Chern., 43, 33-45.
Hermel, J. (1995) Sedimentpetrographische Untersuchungen an FluBsedimenten der Lena (Yakutsk - Laptev-See),
Ostsibirien. Unpubl. diploma thesis, University Braunschweig, 120 pp.
Kassens, H. and V. Karpiy (1994) Russian German Cooperation: The Transdrift I Expedition to the Laptev Sea.
Reports on Polar Res., 151, 168 pp.
Kassens, H., D. Piepenburg, J. Thiede, L. Timokhov, H.-W. Hubberten and S. M. Priamikov (1995) RussianGerman Cooperation: The Laptev Sea System. Reports on Polar Res., 176, 387 pp.
Kassens, H. (1995) Laptev Sea System: Expeditions in 1994. Reports on Polar Res., 182, 195 pp.
Kempema, E.W., E. Reimnitz and P.W. Barnes (1989) Sea-ice sediment entrainment and rafting in the Arctic. J.
Sed. Petrology, 59, 308-317.
Lapina, N. N. (1965) The determination of distribution paths of sediments, based on mineralogical
investigations of marine deposits (example Laptev Sea). Uchennye Zapiski NIIGA. Ser. Region. Geol., 7,
139-157 (in Russian).
Lisitzin, A. P. (1996) Oceanic Sedimentation. American Geophysical Union, Washington, 400 pp.
Luepke, G. and E. Escowitz (1989) Grain-Size, Heavy-Mineral, and Geochemical Analyses of Sediments from
the Chuckchi Sea, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1896, 8 pp.
Mange, M. A. and H.F.W. Maurer (1991) Schwerminerale in Farbe. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 148 pp.
Naugler, F.P. (1967) Recent sediments of the East Siberian Sea. Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington, 70
pp.