Cruise Summary Report. Maria S. Merian – MSM66

The objectives were to systematically search for and map glaciogenic seafloor features providing information on the maximum extend and retreat histories of ice sheets during the last glacial and Holocene. We particularly searched for grounding lines of ice shelves, terminal moraines, mega-scale glacial lineations and drumlins in glacier-troughs, shelf-troughs, fjords and on inter-trough banks. An additional objective was to study the potential of planktonic foraminifera to serve as proxies for past ocean circulation in north Baffin Bay, their behaviour under the unique oceanographic conditions in Baffin Bay and their pattern of calcite delivery to the sea floor.