Fresh Water Anchor Ice Along an Arctic Beach

Authors

  • H. Eric Sadler
  • Harold V. Serson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic2506

Keywords:

Anchor ice, Beaches, Allen Bay, Nunavut, Cornwallis Island, Resolute Bay

Abstract

Anchor ice is broadly defined ... as "submerged ice attached or anchored to the bottom, irrespective of the nature of its formation". We discuss here a form of anchor ice of which we can find no previous description. During August 1978 and 1979 we observed a belt of fresh-water anchor ice along 30 km of beach between Sheringham Point and Prospect Hills in southwest Cornwallis Island, N.W.T. ...

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Published

1981-01-01

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 1 (1981): March: 1–100

Section

Articles