Paleodrainage Insights Into the Fluvial and Glacial History of the Western Chukchi Margin, Arctic Alaska

• Main Author: Stockmaster, Brittany A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: CCU Digital Commons 2017
• Subjects: Alaska; Chukchi; High-resolution subbottom data; Paleochannels; Paleodrainage; Paleovalleys; Geology; Arctic; Barrow Canyon; Chukchi Shelf; Barrow; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/etd/49; https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=etd

Chirp subbottom data collected from the Chukchi shelf, offshore of northwest Alaska, revealed extensive paleodrainage networks that incised the margin during sea level lowstands. These features are cut into folded Cretaceous bedrock strata and represent multiple sea level cycles. Several large incis...