Problems of Quaternary geology and palaeoecology of North European seas

Abstract

The Quaternary geology in the recent 25 years has been characterized by an intense accumulation of data and by the development of a number of hypotheses on the history and evolution of the Barents Sea (Boulton 1979; Elverhdi & Solheim 1983; Vorren & Kristoffersen 1986). The main feature of the climate transformation in the Cenozoic era was the great continental glaciation and the oceanic penglacial area (Matishov 1984, 1987).