Paleoceanology of the Norwegian–Greenland Basin in the Middle–Late Holocene Based on the Microfossil Distribution

Micropaleontological analysis of the assemblages of planktic and benthic foraminifers, dinoflagellate cysts, and diatoms in a sediment core AMK-6142 MK from the southwestern part of the Lofoten Basin of the Norwegian Sea provides new data on regional paleoceanology in the Middle–Late Holocene. Reconstructions of the summer sea surface (based on dinocysts) and subsurface (based on planktic foraminifers) temperatures show possible short, time-transgressive (in different areas) intervals of rapid movement of the Arctic Front to the east/southeast in the Norwegian–Greenland Basin during Neoglaciation in the last 5000–6000 years.