Selected Publications of Leonid Polyak
Gataullin,
V.N., Polyak, L.V., Epstein, O.G. & Romanyuk, B.F., 1993. Glacigenic
deposits of the Central Deep: A key to the Late Quaternary evolution of
the eastern Barents Sea. Boreas 22, 47-58.
Polyak,
L., Lehman, S.J., Gataullin, V. & Jull, A.J.T., 1995. Two-step deglaciation
of the southeastern Barents Sea. Geology 23, 567-571.
Polyak,
L., Forman, S.L., Herlihy, F.A., Ivanov, G. & Krinitsky, P., 1997.
Late
Weichselian deglacial history of the Svyataya (Saint) Anna Trough, northern
Kara Sea, Arctic Russia. Marine Geology 143, 169-188.
Davies,
T.A., Bell, T., Cooper, A.K., Josenhans, H., Polyak, L., Solheim, A., Stoker,
M.S. & Stravers, J.A. (Eds), 1997. Glaciated Continental Margins:
An Atlas of Acoustic Images. Chapman & Hall, London, 315 pp. (and
three contributions therein).
Polyak,
L., Gataullin, V., Okuneva, O. & Stelle, V., 2000. New
constraints on the limits of the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the Last
Glacial Maximum based on borehole stratigraphy from the Pechora Sea.
Geology
28, 611-614.
Polyak,
L., V.Gataullin, V.Gainanov, V.Gladysh, & Yu.Goremykin, 2002. Kara
Sea expedition yields insight into LGM ice sheet extent. Eos 83,
46, p. 525, 529.
Svendsen,
J.I., Gataullin, V., Mangerud, J. & Polyak, L.V., in press. The glacial
history of the Barents and Kara Sea region. In: Ehlers, J. and Gibbard,
P. (Eds.), Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology. Part I: Europe.
Amsterdam, Elsevier.
Barents and Kara seas: Holocene paleoceanography
Polyak,
L.& Solheim, A., 1994. Late- and post-glacial environments in the northern
Barents Sea west of Franz Josef Land. Polar Research 13, 97-207.
Polyak,
L.& Mikhailov, V., 1996. Post-glacial environments of the southeastern
Barents Sea: foraminiferal evidence. In: Andrews, J.T. et al. (Eds.), Late
Quaternary paleoceanography of the North Atlantic margins. Geol. Soc.
Sp. Publ. 111, 323-337.
Polyak,
L., Levitan, M., Khusid, T. & three others, 2000. The impact of glaciation,
river-discharge, and sea-level change on Late Quaternary environments in
the southwestern Kara Sea. Internat. J. Earth Sci. 89, 550-562 (DOI10.1007/s005310000119).
Voronina,
E., Polyak, L., de Vernal, A. & Peyron, O. Holocene
variations of sea-surface conditions in the southeastern Barents Sea, reconstructed
from dinoflagellate cyst assemblages. J. Quaternary
Sci. 16, 717-726.
Lubinski,
D.J., Polyak, L. & Forman, S.L., 2001. Latest
Pleistocene and Holocene inflows of freshwater and Atlantic water to the
northernmost Barents and Kara seas: foraminifera and stable isotopes.
Quatern.
Sci. Rev. 20, 1851-1879.
Polyak,
L., Levitan, M., Khusid, T., Merklin, L. & Mukhina, V., 2002. Variations
in the influence of riverine discharge on the Kara Sea during the last
deglaciation and the Holocene. Global Planet. Change. 32, 291-309.
Polyak,
L., Murdmaa, I. & Ivanova, E., in press. A high-resolution, 800-year
glaciomarine record from Russkaya Gavan’, a Novaya Zemlya fjord, eastern
Barents Sea. The Holocene, ~8 pp.
Barents and Kara seas: modern environments and processes
Forman,
S.L. & Polyak, L., 1997. Radiocarbon content of pre-bomb marine mollusks
and variations in the 14C reservoir for coastal areas of the
Barents and Kara seas, Russia. Geophys. Res. Letters 24, 885-888.
Smith,
J.N., K.M. Ellis, L. Polyak, & three others, 2000. 239,240Pu
transport into the Arctic Ocean from underwater nuclear tests in Chernaya
Bay, Novaya Zemlya. Cont. Shelf Research 20, 255-279.
Polyak,
L., Korsun, S., Febo, L.A., Stanovoy, V., Khusid, T., Hald, M. & Lubinski,
D.J., 2002. Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the southern Kara Sea,
a river-influenced arctic marine environment. J. Foraminiferal Res.
32, 252-273.
Polyak,
L., Lubinski, D.J., & Stanovoy, V., 2003. Stable
isotopes in benthic foraminiferal calcite from a river-influenced arctic
marine environment, Kara and Pechora seas. Paleoceanography
18, 3-1 to 3-17.
Central Arctic Ocean
Ishman,
S.E., Polyak, L.& Poore, R.Z., 1996. An expanded record of Pleistocene
deep Arctic change: Canada Basin, western Arctic Ocean. Geology
24, 139-142.
Polyak,
L., Edwards, M.H., Coakley, B.J. & Jakobsson, M., 2001. Ice
shelves in the Pleistocene Arctic Ocean inferred from glaciogenic deep-sea
bedforms. Nature 410, 453-456.
Jakobsson,
M., Løvlie, R., Arnold, E., Backman, J., Polyak, L. & two others,
2001. A
multiproxy approach to Pleistocene stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental
variation in the central Arctic Ocean. Global Planet. Change
31, 1-21.
Polyak,
L., Curry, W.B., Darby, D.A., Bischof, J. & Cronin, T.M., 2004. Contrasting
glacial/interglacial regimes in the western Arctic Ocean as exemplified
by a sedimentary record from the Mendeleev Ridge. Palaeogeogr.,
Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 203, 73-93.