Nordic Seas ice rafting during the Pliocene and Pleistocene Jansen, E.; Fronval, T.; Rack, F.R.; Channell, J.E.T. Jansen, E. Fronval, T. Rack, F.R. Channell, J.E.T. earth science/paleoclimate/paleoceanography (ice rafted debris,null,null,count per gram,null,paleoceanography,null,null,N,>150 microns) earth science/paleoclimate/paleoceanography (depth,null,null,centimeter,null,paleoceanography,null,null,N,null) earth science/paleoclimate/paleocean (ODP 907>LATITUDE 69.25>LONGITUDE -12.7) A continuous 3.5 Myr IRD record was produced from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 907. A timescale based on magnetic polarity chrons, oxygen isotope stratigraphy (for the last 1Myr) and orbital tuning was developed. The record documents a stepwise inception of large-scale glacial cycles in the Nordic Seas region, the first being a marked expansion of the Greenland ice sheet at 3.3 Ma. A second step occurred at 2.74 Ma by an expansion of large scale ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. Ice sheet variability around the Nordic Seas was tightly coupled to global ice volume over the past 3.3 Myr. Between 3 and 1 Ma, most of the variance of the IRD signal is in the 41 kyr band, whereas the last 1 Myr is characterized by stronger 100 kyr variance. The Gamma Ray Porosity Evaluator (GRAPE) density record is closely linked with IRD variations and documents sub orbital variability resembling the late Quaternary Heinrich/Bond cycles. NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce Investigator : Jansen, E. Investigator : Fronval, T. Investigator : Rack, F.R. Investigator : Channell, J.E.T. 2000-07-01 ONLINE Files online, ASCII https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/2538 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/jansen2000 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/paleocean/sediment_files/complete/odp907-tab.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/jansen2000 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/paleocean/sediment_files/complete/odp907-tab.txt English https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/2538 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/jansen2000 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/paleocean/sediment_files/complete/odp907-tab.txt Jansen, E., T. Fronval, F. Rack, and J.E.T. Channell. 2000. Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history and cyclicity in the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr. Paleoceanography 15(6):709-721. -12.7 69.25 -12.7 69.25