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A refined age for the earliest opening of Bering Strait
| Title: | A refined age for the earliest opening of Bering Strait. |
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| Name(s): |
Oleinik, Anton E., creator Gladenkov, Andrey Yu, creator Marincovich, Louie, Jr., creator Barinov, Konstantin B., creator |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Publisher: | Elsevier | |
| Summary: | Biostratigraphically and chronostratigraphically important diatoms from the Milky River Formation, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska, imply an age range of 5.4-5.5 Ma for the oldest North Pacific Cenozoic occurrence of the marine bivalve mollusk Astarte, which migrated from the Arctic Ocean into the North Pacific when Bering Strait first flooded. The data presented here are a refinement of the age range of 4.8-5.5 Ma reported earlier and imply that Bering Strait first opened very near the end of the Miocene at 5.32 Ma. | |
| Identifier: | 165902 (digitool), FADT165902 (IID), fau:2009 (fedora), 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00249-3 (doi) | |
| FAU Department/College: | Department of Geosciences Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | |
| Note(s): | This manuscript is a version of a published article in Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 183(2002) p. 321-328 www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo | |
| Subject(s): |
Paleoecology--Bering Sea Region Diatoms, Fossil--North Pacific Region Geology, Stratigraphic--Miocene Paleoceanography--North Pacific Region Mollusks, Fossil--Arctic Ocean |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/165902 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00249-3 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©2002 Elsevier B.V. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
