Physical oceanography and submarine geology of the seas to the Lebour

• Main Author: E. C. Lafond
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1954
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Pacific; Wrangel Island; Barrow; Chukchi; Point Barrow; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.547.2215; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic7-2-93.pdf

A LASKA, with the north Pacific Ocean to the south, a transition zone through the Bering and Chukchi seas to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north, is exceptionally well situated for studies in oceanography. These diverse water masses contain a variety of ecological environments, and different...