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

Auteurs-es

  • E.C. LaFond

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3832

Mots-clés :

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

Résumé

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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1954-01-01