Recent Sediments of the Gulf of Alaska (Sovremennye Osadki Zaliva Alyaska)

• Main Author: Gershanovich,D. E.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; (*OCEAN BOTTOM SAMPLING; *ALASKA GULF); (*SEDIMENTATION; MEASUREMENT); OCEAN BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; VOLCANOES; GLACIERS; FORAMINIFERA; OCEAN CURRENTS; CLAY; GRAVEL; TERRAIN; EROSION; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Alyaska; Geologov; Gulf of Alaska; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0722843; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0722843

About 400 samples of bottom deposits have been collected during the last years in the Gulf of Alaska by Soviet oceanographical expeditions. On the shelf of the Gulf of Alaska, characterized by a rather rugged topography, zones of intensive sediment accumulation are alternating with zones of reduced sedimentation. Terrigenous deposits are dominant, represented by sediments of all granulometric types. (Author) Trans. of Geologiya dna Okeanov i Morei Mezhdunarodnyi Geologicheskii Kongress (22nd) Sessiya, Doklady Sovetskikh Geologov, Moscow, 1964 p87-96, by M. Slessers.