THE BOTTOM RELIEF OF THE BERING SEA

The Bering Sea is a deep-water sea with a maximum depth of 4420 m in Kamchatskiy Proliv and somewhat lesser depths (4151 and 4096 m, as far as is known) in the deep trough of the sea. The Bering Sea is much deeper than the shallow seas along the continental shelf. This is the deepest sea in the Far...

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Main Authors: Udintsev,G. B., Boichenko,I. B., Kanaev,V. F.
Other Authors: AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY BOSTON MASS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1963
Subjects:
BERING SEA
OCEAN BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY
MARINE GEOLOGY
HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
MAPS
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
OCEANOGRAPHY
USSR
Bering Sea
Kamchatskiy
Kamchatskiy Proliv
Okhotsk
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0602196
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Summary:The Bering Sea is a deep-water sea with a maximum depth of 4420 m in Kamchatskiy Proliv and somewhat lesser depths (4151 and 4096 m, as far as is known) in the deep trough of the sea. The Bering Sea is much deeper than the shallow seas along the continental shelf. This is the deepest sea in the Far East; its maximum depth is 751 m greater than the corresponding depth of the Sea of Japan (3669 m) and 1046 m greater than that of the Sea of Okhotsk (3370m). In the region north of Kamchatskiy Proliv, the bottom rises in the form of a sill, whose depth does not exceed 3589 m. The main feature of the Bering Sea is its division into two distinct parts: a vast shallow water area with depths less than 200 m and a deep basin with depths greater than 3000 m. Rel'ef Dna Beringova Morya, trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Okeanologii. Trudy, 1959, v. 29, p. 17-64.

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