Ice-rafted fossils in ODP LEg 104 Pleistocene-Pliocene sediments

Ice-rafted fossils of late Cretaceous and Tertiary age were detected in Pleistocene-Pliocene glacially influenced sediments of the Vdring Plateau, eastern Norwegian Sea. The ice-rafted associations contain frequent Inoceramus (Bivalvia) prisms and rare occurrences of both benthic and planktonic foraminifers of Miocene, Oligocene, and Maastrichtian to Campanian age. As source areas, shallow outcrops on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as well as the Greenland Shelf and the North and Baltic Seas have to be considered.

在挪威海东部的沃尔维斯海台（Vøring Plateau）的更新世-上新世冰川作用影响沉积物中，发现了晚白垩世与第三纪的冰筏化石（Ice-rafted fossils）。该冰筏化石组合频繁产出叠瓦蛤属（Inoceramus，双壳纲（Bivalvia））的棱柱壳体碎片，且零星出现中新世、渐新世以及马斯特里赫特期至坎潘期的底栖与浮游有孔虫。其物源区可包括挪威大陆架、格陵兰大陆架以及北海与波罗的海的浅层露头。