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Present and Past Oceanographic Controls of Sediment Formation in the North Atlantic-Arctic Gateway (A Critical Appraisal of SFB 313 Scientific Results)

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This concluding chapter presents a critical appraisal of the research carried out within the framework of SFB 313. We will try to outline the scientific perspectives and problems as well as our approach to their solution. Moreover, we shall describe the scientific highlights of the results and define areas where we followed questionable assumptions and therefore failed to achieve what we had hoped for. A complete documentation of the various activities of SFB 313 (including an overview of research cruises, etc.) can be found in Schafer and Schroder-Ritzrau (1999).

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Thiede, J., Schäfer, P., Ritzrau, W., Schlüter, M., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Members of SFB 313. (2001). Present and Past Oceanographic Controls of Sediment Formation in the North Atlantic-Arctic Gateway (A Critical Appraisal of SFB 313 Scientific Results). In: Schäfer, P., Ritzrau, W., Schlüter, M., Thiede, J. (eds) The Northern North Atlantic. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56876-3_25

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