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Eastern Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia towards Spitsbergen. Under recent<br />

conditions this is not observed in <strong>the</strong> Nordic Seas, but for <strong>the</strong> last glacial maximum<br />

such a circulation pattern has been reconstructed from analysis of IRD. In surface<br />

sediments of <strong>the</strong> Nordic Seas <strong>the</strong> distribution pattern of magnetic susceptibility also<br />

implies such a circulation (Pirrung et al., 2002).<br />

<strong>The</strong> occurence of IRD from sou<strong>the</strong>rn source areas in <strong>the</strong> uppermost 2 - 10 cm of <strong>the</strong><br />

“Hausgarten” sediments deposited during <strong>the</strong> Weichselian glaciation implies very low<br />

Holocene sedimentation rates (less than 5 - 10 mm/kyr) in <strong>the</strong> “Hausgarten” area. A<br />

more detailed discussion of sedimentation patterns requires more information from<br />

radiographs of giant box corers and age models e.g. on <strong>the</strong> basis of radioactive decay,<br />

stable oxygen isotopes or 14 C-dates from foraminifers. Additional information is to be<br />

expected from measurements of magnetisation.<br />

Acknowledgement<br />

We thank Melanie Bergmann, Natalia Budaeva, Katarzyna Jankowska, Natalia<br />

Kukina, and Barbara Urban-Malinga for kindly providing <strong>the</strong> sieved gravel clasts from<br />

<strong>the</strong> GKG stations. <strong>The</strong> staff onboard <strong>the</strong> polar research icebreaker “Polarstern” is<br />

thanked for <strong>the</strong>ir excellent assistance during <strong>the</strong> cruise <strong>ARK</strong> <strong>XIX</strong>/3c.<br />

References<br />

Anderson, E.S., Dokken, T.M., Everhoi, A., Solheim, A., Fossen, I. (1996): Late<br />

Quaternary sedimentation and glacial history of <strong>the</strong> western Svålbard<br />

continental margin. Marine Geology, 133: 123-156.<br />

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