Micropaleontology at the North Pole: An introduction

摘要

The Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) is unequalled in the scope of research carried out within the span of only a few weeks. In August 2004, the first ever multi-ship drilling expedition to the Central Arctic provided a unique opportunity to sample the modern Arctic Ocean and its "deep time" environments. A series of Ocean Drilling cores were drilled on the Lomonosov Ridge, an aseismic ridge between Greenland and Siberia that represents a sliver of continental crust that rifted away from the Siberian Margin during the early Paleogene.