Abstract
The Quaternary geology in the recent 25 years has been characterized by an intense accumulation of data and by the development of a number of hypotheses on the history and evolution of the Barents Sea (Boulton 1979; Elverhoi & Solheim 1983; Vorren & Kristoffersen 1986). The main feature of the climate transformation in the Cenozoic era was the great continental glaciation and the oceanic penglacial area (Matishov 1984, 1987).