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There has been much speculation about the history of the Arctic Ocean, particularly its response to the late Quaternary climatic fluctuations1–8. As a result, considerable data have been gathered from Arctic Ocean sediment cores to reconstruct glacial and interglacial Arctic Ocean palaeoenvironments8,9. But even with these data the reconstructions and the correlations with the Quaternary chronostratigraphy have been unsatisfactory, mainly because of the lack of detailed stratigraphical data such as those provided by stable oxygen-isotope stratigraphy10. Here we present stable isotope records from Arctic Ocean sediment cores which can be correlated convincingly with corresponding data from the North Atlantic. Together with lithostratigraphical data, they provide new evidence on Arctic Ocean history in relation to global late Quaternary climatic fluctuations.
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Zahn, R., Markussen, B. & Thiede, J. Stable isotope data and depositional environments in the late Quaternary Arctic Ocean. Nature 314, 433–435 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/314433a0
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