Fresh Water Anchor Ice Along an Arctic Beach

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  • H. Eric Sadler
  • Harold V. Serson

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic2506

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

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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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1981-01-01

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