Distribution of sample sites

Figure 25. Middle Pleistocene–Holocene stratigraphy of the Faroe–Shetland region

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Martinson, D.G., Pisias, N.G., Hays, J.D., Imbrie, J., Moore, T.C., Jr. & Shackleton, N.J. 1987. Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages; development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy. Quaternary Research, 27, 1-29.

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Source of data for range chart

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5. Kuijpers, A., Nielsen, T., Akhmetzhanov, A., de Haas, H., Kenyon, N.H. & Van weering, T.C.E. 2001. Late Quaternary slope instability on the Faeroe margin: mass flow features and timing of events. Geo-Marine Letters, 20, 149-159

6. Lassen, S., Jansen, E., Knudsen, K.L., Kuijpers, A., Kristensen, M. & Christensen, K. 1999. Northeast Atlantic surface circulation during the last 30,000 to 10,000 C-14 years. Paleoceanography, 14,: 616-625

7. Rasmussen, T.L., Thomsen, E., Van weering, T.C.E. & Labeyrie, L. 1996. Rapid changes in surface and deep water conditions at the Faeroe Margin during the last 58,000 years. Paleoceanography, 11, 757-771