(Table 1) Types of White Sea surface layer bottom sediments and concentration of heavy minerals in 0.1-0.05 mm grain size fraction

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Mineral composition of recent bottom sediments was studied in the White Sea. A single terrigenous-mineralogical province is defined; it is characterized by a mineral association of amphibole, epidote, garnet, and pyroxene. Five regions are assigned in the White Sea in accordance with mineral composition of surface bottom sediments. We argue that granite-metamorphic rock complexes of the Baltic Shield are the main source of recent bottom sediments in the White Sea, while the East European Craton (Russian Platform) plays the secondary role.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.818116
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437013020045
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.818116
Provenance
Creator Gusakova, A I
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Publication Year 2013
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 261 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (33.643W, 64.588S, 40.671E, 66.656N); White Sea