Physical Oceanography and Submarine Geology of the Seas to the West and North of Alaska

Authors

  • E.C. LaFond

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3832

Keywords:

Age, Caucasians, Geological time, Geology, Glaciology, Granite, History, Ice islands, Ice shelves, Indians, Inuit, Metamorphism (Geology), Movement, Population, Size, Social surveys, Structural geology, Arctic Ocean, N.W.T., Nunavut, Nunavik, Québec, Alaska, Greenland, Russian Arctic, Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, United States Range

Abstract

Contains summary based on data collected in summers 1933 to 1952 by personnel of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Hydrographic Office, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Washington, and Canadian Navy, in Bering Sea and Strait, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas. Submarine topography, bottom sediments, horizontal and vertical temperature and salinity structure, characteristics also origin and movement of water masses, currents, and ice conditions are briefly described.

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Published

1954-01-01

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (1954): September: 57–112

Section

Articles