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Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic: Dynamics and History
Acknowledgements
We gratefully thank Peter Muller (Bremen University) and Jurgen Rullk6tter (ICBM,
Oldenburg) for the numerous constructive suggestions for improvement of the manuscript. This
study was performed within the bilateral Russian-German multidisciplinary research project
"System Laptev Sea". The financial support by the German Ministry of Education, Science,
Research and Technology (BMBF) is gratefully acknowledged. This is contribution No. 1340
of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
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slope: Surface-water productivity vs. terrigenous supply. Org. Geochem., 26, 379-390.
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Chern., subm.
Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic: Dynamics and History
Acknowledgements
We gratefully thank Peter Muller (Bremen University) and Jurgen Rullk6tter (ICBM,
Oldenburg) for the numerous constructive suggestions for improvement of the manuscript. This
study was performed within the bilateral Russian-German multidisciplinary research project
"System Laptev Sea". The financial support by the German Ministry of Education, Science,
Research and Technology (BMBF) is gratefully acknowledged. This is contribution No. 1340
of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
References
Aagaard, K., J. Swift, and K. Cannack (1985) Thennohaline circulation in the Arctic Mediterranean Seas. Journ.
Geophys. Res., 90, 4833-4846,
Ackman, R.G., C.S. Tochter, and 1. Me Lachlan (1968) Marine phytoplankter fatty acids. J Fish Res Board Can
25, 1603-1620.
Ahlgren, G., I.-B. Gustafsson and M. Boberg (1992) Fatty acid content and chemical composition of freshwater
microalgae. Journ. Phycol., 28, 37-50.
Ahlgren, G., L. Lunstedt, M. Brett and C. Forsberg (1990) Lipid composition and food quality of some
freshwater phytoplankton for cladoceran zooplankters. Journ. Plankt. Res., 12, 809-818.
ARCSS Workshop Steering Committee (1990) Arctic System Science: Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions. Lake
Arrowhead Workshop Report, 101 Inc., Washington DC, 132pp.
Bauch, H.A., H. Cremer, H. Erlenkeuser, H. Kassens and M. Kunz-Pirrung (1996) Holocene paleoenvironmental
evolution of the northern central Siberian shelf sea. Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North
(QUEEN), First Annual Workshop, Strasbourg, Abstract Volume.
Baumann, M. (1990) Coccoliths in sediments of the eastern Arctic Basin. In: Bleil, U. and 1. Thiede (Eds.),
Geological History of the Polar Oceans: Arctic versus Antarctic, NATO Series C, Mathematical and Physical
Sciences, 308, 437-445.
Berger, W.H., V. Smetacek and G. Wefer (1989) Productivity of the Ocean: Past and Present. Life Sciences
Research Report, Vol. 44, Wiley & Sons, New York, 471pp.
Bligh, E.G. and W.J. Dyer (1959) A rapid method of total lipid extraction and purification. Can. Journ.
Biochem. Physiol., 37,911-917.
Blumer, M., R.R.L. Guillard and T. Chase (1971) Hydrocarbons of marine phytoplankton. Mar. BioI., 8, 183189.
Boetius, A., C. Grahl, I. Kriincke, G. Liebezeit E. and Niithig (1996) Concentrations of chloroplastic pigments
in Eastern Arctic sediments: Indication of recent marine organic matter input. In: R. Stein, G. Ivanov, M.
Levitan and K. Fahl (Eds.), Reports on Polar Research, 212, 213-218.
Bordowskiy, O.K. (1965) Sources of organic matter in marine basins. Mar. Geol., 3, 5-31.
Brassell, S.C., G. Eglinton, LT. Marlowe, U. Pflaum ann and M. Sarnthein (1986) Molecular stratigraphy: a
new tool for climatic assessment. Nature, 320, 129-133.
Brassell, S.C., G. Eglinton, 1.R. Maxwell and R.P. Philip (1978) Natural background of alkanes in the aquatic
environment. In: Hutzinger, 0., LH. Lelyveld and B.C.J. Zoetman (Eds.), Aquatic Pollutants,
Transfonnation and Biological Effects. (Pergamon Press), 69-86.
Bray, E.E. and E.D. Evans (1961) Distribution of n-paraffins as a clue to recognition of source beds. Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta, 22, 2-15.
de Vernal, A., G. Bilodeau, C. Hillaire-Marcel and N. Kassou (1992) Quantitative assessment of carbonate
dissolution in marine sediments from foraminifer living vs. shell ratios, Davis Strait, northwest North
Atlantic. Geology, 20, 527-530.
Eicken, H., T. Viehoff, T. Martin, J. Kolatschek, V. Alexandrov and E. Reimnitz (1995) Studies of clean and
sediment-laden ice in the Laptev Sea. In: Kassens, H., et al. (Eds.), Second Workshop on "Russian-Gennan
Cooperation in and Around the Laptev Sea", St. Petersburg, November 1994, Reports on Polar Research,
176,62-70.
Eggers, J. (1994) Charakterisierung des Eintrages von organischen Substanzen anhand von Markerverbindungen
in marinen Okosystemen. Unpubl. Diploma Thesis, Bremen University, 68pp.
Espitalie, J., 1.L. Laporte, M. Madec, F. Marquis, P. Leplat, J. Paulet and A. Boutefeu (1977) Methode rapide
de caracterisation des roches meres, de leur potentiel petrolier et de leur degre d'evolution. Rev. Inst. Franc.
Petrol., 32, 23-42.
Fahl, K. and R. Stein (1997a) Modern organic-carbon-deposition in the Laptev Sea and the adjacent continental
slope: Surface-water productivity vs. terrigenous supply. Org. Geochem., 26, 379-390.
Fahl, K. and R. Stein (1997b) Biomarkers in the Late Quaternary Arctic Ocean: Problems and perspectives, Mar.
Chern., subm.