Lateral transport of sediment and organic matter, derived from coastal erosion, into the nearshore zone of the southern Beaufort Sea, Canada

• Main Author: Pfalz, Gregor
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Beaufort Sea; Climate change; Herschel; Mackenzie Delta; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44364/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44364/1/Master_Thesis_Gregor_Pfalz_2017.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50702; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50702.d001

Herschel Basin is a natural depression on the southern Beaufort Shelf, which is located in the western Canadian Arctic between the Mackenzie Delta and the Alaskan border. The submarine basin of late Wisconsin age is a natural sediment trap for material eroded along the Yukon coast and through its un...