A sediment and organic carbon budget for the Canadian Beaufort Shelf

• Main Author: C. Gobeil D
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Beaufort Shelf; Mackenzie River; Beaufort Sea; Mackenzie river; Mackenzie Shelf
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.462.644; http://ic.ucsc.edu/~acr/BeringResources/Articles of interest/Canadian Basin/Macdonald et al 1998.pdf

The Arctic Ocean accounts for 20 % of the world’s continental shelves. Because the Arctic is sensitive to global change, budgets of organic carbon for its shelves are of immediate interest. The Mackenzie Shelf of the Canadian Beaufort Sea is the best North American proxy for the enormous Eurasian Sh...