ARCTIC Pliocene Marine Transgressions of Northern Alaska: Circumarctic Correlations and Paleoclimatic Interpretations’

• Main Authors: J. Brigham-greite, L. D. Carter
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Arctic; Parkland; Arctic Basin; Ice; Kamchatka; permafrost; Sea ice; Seward Peninsula; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.586.4454; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic45-1-74.pdf

ABSTRACT. At least three marine transgressions of Pliocene age are recorded by littoral to inner-shelf sediments of the Gubik Formation, which mantles the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska. The three recognized transgressions were eustatic high sea levels that, from oldest to youngest, are inf...