Late Quaternary Paleoceanographic Settings in the Central Arctic Ocean as Revealed from the Composition of Coarse Grains on the Alpha-Mendeleev and Lomonosov Ridges

Evgenia Bazhenova1, Robert F Spielhagen2, Anna Kudryavtseva3, Evgenia Voronovich3, Ruediger H Stein4 and Alexey Krylov5, (1)NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Literature, Mainz, Germany, (3)Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven Frg, Germany, (5)VNIIOkeangeologia, Saint Petersburg, Russia