A shift in heavy and clay mineral provenance indicates a middle Miocene onset of a perennial sea-ice cover in the Arctic Oceanстатья
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Аннотация:During the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX), a 428-m-thick sequence of Upper Cretaceous to Quaternary
sediments was penetrated. The mineralogical composition of the upper 300 m of this sequence is presented here
for the first time. Heavy and clay mineral associations indicate a major and consistent shift in provenance, from
the Barents-Kara–western Laptev Sea region, characterized by presence of common clinopyroxene, to the
eastern Laptev-East Siberian seas in the upper part of the section, characterized by common hornblende
(amphibole). Sea ice originating from the latter source region must have survived at least one summer melt cycle
in order to reach the ACEX drill site, if considering modern sea ice trajectories and velocities. This shift in
mineral assemblages probably represents the onset of a perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, which
occurred at about 13 Ma, thus suggesting a coeval freeze in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.