Waste Disposal Practices of the Former Soviet Union in the Arctic Environment

• Main Authors: Johnson, G. L., Pogrebitsky, Julian, Macnab, Ron
• Other Authors: JOINT OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS INC WASHINGTON DC
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1994
• Subjects: Geography; Geology; Geochemistry and Mineralogy; *WASTE DISPOSAL; *ARCTIC REGIONS; *TECTONICS; *PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; USSR; OCEAN BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; OCEAN BASINS; OCEAN RIDGES; ALKALINE EARTH COMPOUNDS; EVOLUTION(GENERAL); ARCTIC BASIN; AMERASIAN BASIN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; Arctic; Eurasia Basin; Greenland; Makarov Basin; Pacific; Arctic Basin; Chukotka; makarov basin
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA280787; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA280787

This paper summarizes major events in the tectonic evolution of the Arctic from a paleoceanographic perspective focused on the formation of oceanic basins in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Despite its present cold climate, the Arctic land masses once lay much farther to the south and were gradually carr...