The book reflects the results of the study of sedimentation history,
paleoclimatology, and paleoceanography of the Arctic and Subarctic
during the last 130 ka. The main objects under consideration are marine
basins of the West Subarctic (Iceland, Norwegian, and Greenland Seas),
the Arctic Ocean (Barents, Pechora, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, Chukchi
Seas and deep-sea Arctic Ocean proper), East Subarctic (Bering and
Okhotsk Seas). The modern environment and geological history of water-
(ice-) sheds and marine basins have been studied for each region, using
different sedimentological and geochemical proxies. Mainly results of
the authors' own studies are represented, with special emphasis on
glacial/interglacial variability and land-ocean interaction. The book is
aimed at sedimentologists, quaternary and marine geologists,
paleoclimatologists and paleoceanographers, as well as being of great
interest to students in the related fields.