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Special Issue The Late Quaternary Stratigraphy and Environments of Northern Eurasia and the Adjacent Arctic Seas — New Contributions from QUEEN Selected papers from the annual QUEEN workshops held in Oystese, Norway, April 1999, and in Lund, Sweden, April 2000 Edited by J. Thiede, H.A. Bauch Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research, Columbusstrasse, D-27568 Bremerhaven, Germany GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, D-24148 Kiel, Germany C. Hjort Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund University, Solvegatan 13, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden J. Mangerud Department of Geology, University of Bergen, Allégt. 41, N-5007 Bergen/Norway Introduction Pleistocene stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental variation from Lomonosov Ridge sediments, central Arctic Ocean M. Jakobsson, R. Lovlie, E.M. Arnold, J. Backman, L. Polyak, J.-O. Knutsen and E. Musatov Detailed mineralogical evidence for two nearly identical glacial/deglacial cycles and Atlantic water advection to the Arctic Ocean during the last 90,000 years C. Vogt, J. Knies, R.F. Spielhagen and R. Stein Marine ice-rafted debris records constrain maximum extent of Saalian and Weichselian ice-sheets along the northern Eurasian margin J. Knies, H.-P. Kleiber, J. Matthiessen, C. Muller and N. Nowaczyk Late Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy at the Eurasian continental margin, Arctic Ocean: indications for Atlantic water inflow in the past 150,000 years J. Matthiessen, J. Knies, N.R. Nowaczyk and R. Stein Accumulation of particulate organic carbon at the Eurasian continental margin during late Quaternary times: controlling mechanisms and paleoenvironmental significance R. Stein, B. Boucsein, K. Fahl, T. Garcia de Oteyza, J. Knies and F. Niessen The Late Quaternary evolution of the western Laptev Sea continental margin, Arctic Siberia—implications from sub- bottom profiling H.P. Kleiber, F. Niessen and D. Weiel Chronology of the Holocene transgression at the North Siberian margin H.A. Bauch, T. Mueller-Lupp, E. Taldenkova, R.F. Spielhagen, H. Kassens, P.M. Grootes, J. Thiede, J. Heinemeier and V.V. Petryashov 125 A Holocene pollen record from the Laptev Sea shelf, northern Yakutia O.D. Naidina and H.A. Bauch 141 Postglacial relative sea-level change and stratigraphy of raised coastal basins on Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia G.D. Corner, V.V. Kolka, V.Y. Yevzerov and J.J. Moller 155 Late Pleistocene stratigraphy and sedimentary environment of the Arkhangelsk area, northwest Russia A. Lysa, |. Demidov, M. Houmark-Nielsen and E. Larsen 179 Distinguishing between tills from Valdaian ice sheets in the Arkhangelsk region, Northwest Russia K.H. Kjger, |. Demidov, M. Houmark-Nielsen and E. Larsen 201 Early and Middle Valdaian glaciations, ice-dammed lakes and periglacial interstadials in northwest Russia: new evidence from the Pyoza River area M. Houmark-Nielsen, |. Demidov, S. Funder, K. Grosfjeld, K.H. Kjaer, E. Larsen, N. Lavrova, A. Lysa and J.K. Nielsen . Late Quaternary stratigraphy, radiocarbon chronology, and glacial history at Cape Shpindler, southern Kara Sea, Arctic Russia W.F. Manley, H. Lokrantz, V. Gataullin, O. Ingdlfsson, S.L. Forman and T. Andersson 239 Environmental changes on Yugorski Peninsula, Kara Sea, Russia, during the last 12,800 radiocarbon years A.A. Andreev, W.F. Manley, O. Ingdlfsson and S.L. Forman 255 Climatic implications of Late Quaternary plant macrofossil assemblages from the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia F. Kienast, C. Siegert, A.D ereviagin and D.H. Mai 265 The stratigraphic framework for the Upper Pleistocene of the glaciated Russian Arctic: changing paradigms V. Astakhov 283 Weichselian stratigraphy and glaciotectonic deformation along the lower Pechora River, Arctic Russia M. Henriksen, J. Mangerud, O. Maslenikova, A. Matiouchkov and J. Tveranger.......00.00. .ee. e.e .ee e 297 The chronology of a large ice-dammed lake and the Barents—Kara Ice Sheet advances, Northern Russia J. Mangerud, V.I. Astakhov, A. Murray and J.|. Svendsen 321 Where was the outlet of the ice-dammed Lake Komi, Northern Russia? O. Maslenikova and J. Mangerud 337 Mikulino and Valdai palaeoenvironments in the Vologda area, NW Russia V. Gey, M. Saarnisto, J.P. Lunkka and |. Demidov 347 Modelling the Eurasian Ice Sheet through a full (Weichselian) glacial cycle M.J. Siegert, J.A. Dowdeswell, M. Hald and J.-Il. Svendsen 367 Deglaciation chronology of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet from the Lake Onega Basin to the Salpausselka End Moraines M. Saarnisto and T. Saarinen Extent and age of the Last Glacial Maximum in the southeastern sector of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet J.P. Lunkka, M. Saarnisto, V. Gey, |. Demidov and V. Kiselova The North Taymyr ice-marginal zone, Arctic Siberia—a preliminary overview and dating H. Alexanderson, C. Hjort, P. Moller, O. Antonov and M. Pavlov Constraints for the latest glacial advance on Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean, from rock surface exposure dating J.A. Karhu, S. Tschudi, M. Saarnisto, P. Kubik and C. Schluchter The extent of the Late Weichselian ice sheet in the southeastern Barents Sea V. Gataullin, J. Mangerud and J.|. Svendsen