Chapter 1 The Geological History of Cenozoic Polar Oceans: Arctic Versus Antarctic — an Introduction

Chapter 2 Morphology and Plate Tectonics: The Modern Polar Oceans

Chapter 3 The Opening of the Arctic Ocean

Chapter 4 On the Tectonic Evolution and Paleoceanographic Significance of the Fram Strait Gateway

Chapter 5 The Evolution of the Svalbard Margins: Synthesis and New Results

Chapter 6 The Western Barents Sea during the Cenozoic

Chapter 7 Structures in Rift — Basin Sediments on the Conjugate Margins of Western Tasmania, South Tasman Rise, and Ross Sea, Antarctica

Chapter 8 A Fine-Scale Seismic Stratigraphy of the Eastern Margin of the Weddell Sea

Chapter 9 Some Speculations Regarding the Nature of the Explora-Andenes Escarpment, Weddell Sea

Chapter 10 A Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice and the Effects of Different Properties on Sea Ice Biota

Chapter 12 Cycles, Rhythms, and Events in Quaternary Arctic and Antarctic Glaciomarine Deposits

Chapter 13 Cenozoic Glacier Fluctuations in Polar Regions — Terrestrial Records from Antarctica and the North Atlantic Sector of the Arctic

Chapter 14 Past Changes in Precipitation Rate and Ice Thickness as Derived from Age — Depth Profiles in Ice-Sheets; Application to Greenland and Canadian Arctic Ice Core Records

Chapter 15 Stability of the Arctic Ocean Ice-Cover and Pleistocene Warming Events: Outlining the Problem

Chapter 16 Late Weichselian Ice Recession in the Central Barents Sea

Chapter 17 Distribution Patterns of Calcareous Foraminifers in Arctic Ocean Sediments

Chapter 18 Physiographic and Biological Factors Controlling Surface Sediment Distribution in the Fram Strait

Chapter 19 Norwegian — Iceland Seas: Transfer Functions between Marine Planktic Diatoms and Surface Water Temperature

Chapter 20 Particle Sedimentation and Productivity in Antarctic Waters of the Atlantic Sector

Chapter 21 Sediment Patterns in the Southern Weddell Sea: Filchner Shelf and Filchner Depression

Chapter 22 The Last Deglaciation in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres: A Comparison Based on Oxygen Isotope, Sea Surface Temperature Estimates, and Accelerator 14 C Dating from Deep-Sea Sediments

Chapter 23 Synthesis of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Coccolith Biochronology and History of North Atlantic Drift Water Influx during the Last 500.000 Years

Chapter 24 Coccoliths in Sediments of the Eastern Arctic Basin

Chapter 25 Foraminiferal Assemblages in Sediments from Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean

Chapter 26 Physical and Acoustic Properties of Arctic Ocean Deep-Sea Sediments: Paleoclimatic Implications

Chapter 27 High Resolution 10 Be and 230 Th Stratigraphy of Late Quaternary Sediments from the Fram Strait (Core 23235)

Chapter 28 The Enigma of Oxygen Isotope Stage 5 in the Central Fram Strait

Chapter 29 Dropstones in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea — Indications of Late Quaternary Circulation Patterns?

Chapter 30 Glacial to Interglacial Changes in the Isotopic Gradients of Southern Ocean Surface Water

Chapter 31 Stable Isotope Record and Late Quaternary Sedimentation Rates at the Antarctic Continental Margin

Chapter 32 Evolution of Biosiliceous Sedimentation Patterns — Eocene Through Quaternary: Paleoceanographic Response to Polar Cooling

Chapter 33 Neogene to Recent Palynostratigraphy of Circum-Arctic Basins: Results of ODP Leg 104, Norwegian Sea, Leg 105, Baffin Bay, and DSDP Site 611, Irminger Sea

Chapter 34 Miocene to Quaternary Paleoceanography in the Northern North Atlantic: Variability in Carbonate and Biogenic Opal Accumulation

Chapter 35 Neogene and Pleistocene Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere and Late Miocene — Pliocene Global Ice Volume Fluctuations: Evidence from the Norwegian Sea

Chapter 36 Southern Ocean Response to the Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation at 2.4 Ma

Chapter 37 Pliocene — Pleistocene Paleoceanography in the Weddell Sea — Siliceous Microfossil Evidence

Chapter 38 Polar front Fluctuations and the Upper Gauss to Brunhes Paleooceanographic Record in the Southeast Atlantic Ocean