PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS ON ARCTIC DRIFT STATION CHARLIE

• Main Author: CROMIE, WILLIAM J.
• Other Authors: LAMONT GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY PALISADES NY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1960
• Subjects: *GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; *OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEAN BOTTOM; PHOTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; POLAR REGIONS; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SOUND RANGING; Arctic; Chukchi Shelf; Arctic Basin; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0252176; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0252176

Station Charlie, established on the pack ice of the Arctic Basin, drifted in an east-west line across a shallow peninsula of the Chukchi shelf during July-August, 1959. Continuous soundings were taken within an accuracy of 1M across the feature and in adjacent deep water. A bathymetric profile was c...