BATHYMETRY OF THE BEAUFORT SEA

• Main Authors: Carsola,A. J., Fisher,R. L., Shipek,C. J., Shumway,George
• Other Authors: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY LA JOLLA CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1959
• Subjects: (*DEPTH FINDING; ARCTIC OCEAN); OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; ECHO RANGING; OCEAN BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING; SEDIMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHS; ICEBREAKERS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BATHYMETRY; BEAUFORT SEA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Mackenzie River; Canada; Amundsen Trough; Amundsen Gulf; Barter Island; Beaufort Sea; canada basin; Canadian Archipelago; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0613725; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0613725

Oceanographic studies of the Beaufort Sea were made from ice-breakers during the summers of 1951, 1957, and 1958. Numerous echo-sounding lines were made across the shelf and slope, and into the deep Canada Basin. Between the Colville and Mackenzie River deltas, the shelf has a width of about forty n...