Glacial geomorphology of the Central Arctic Ocean: the Chukchi Borderland and the Lomonosov Ridge

• Published in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Main Authors: Jakobsson, Martin, Polyak, Leonid, Edwards, Margo, Kleman, Johan, Coakley, Bernard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Borderland; Chukchi; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Lomonosov Ridge
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.1667; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fesp.1667; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/esp.1667

Abstract The last decade of geophysical seafloor mapping in the Arctic Ocean from nuclear submarines and icebreakers reveals a wide variety of glaciogenic geomorphic features at water depths reaching 1000 m. These findings provide new and intriguing insights into the Quaternary glacial history of th...