ARCTIC Mackenzie River Driftwood- A Dendrochronological Study

• Main Author: Olafur Eggertsson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Liard; Mackenzie Delta; Mackenzie River; Svalbard; East Greenland; east greenland current; Iceland; Liard River; Mackenzie river; North Atlantic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.524.8219; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic47-2-128.pdf

ABSTRACT. As part of a geqeral study of arctic driftwood, 206 samples of driftwood logs from the Mackenzie delta area were analyzed by dendrochronological methods (tree-ring studies). The aim was to detect the origin of the wood. Three forest stands in the delta were also sampled, and tree-ring chro...