THE MARINE GEOLOGY OF THE ARCTIC-OCEAN - SUMMARY

Most of the nine papers in this issue were presented at the 4th Intern ational Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP IV) in Kiel, September 199 2. With two exceptions (Matishov et al., 1994-this volume, Reimnitz et al., 1994-this volume) they are all based more or less on data collec ted on the international three-ship expedition (Arctic 91) to the cent ral Arctic Ocean (Anderson, 1991; Futterer, 1992) and represent a cont inuation of the Arctic deep-sea research report about the Nansen Basin (Pfirman and Thiede, 1992). Included in this summary is a paper of Ga rd (1993) which is also based on the Arctic 91 cores. Together, these ten paper elucidate several important problems of the geological prope rties and history of the deep Arctic Basin and the surrounding shelves .