New Insights into the Origin of the Bering Sea from SO201 and SO249 cruises

• Main Authors: Hoernle, Kaj, Werner, Reinhard, Portnyagin, Maxim, Yogodzinski, G. M., Hauff, Folkmar, Baranov, B., Silantyev, S.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Bowers; Chukotka; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/34584/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/34584/1/2016_Hoernle_AGU%20Fall%20Meeting_New-Insights-Bering-SO209-SO249.pdf

The origin of the Bering Sea Basin remains elusive. It is still not resolved if the basin formed by plate capture or backarc spreading. On the German R/V Sonne cruises SO201/1b-2 KALMAR in 2009 and SO249/1-2 BERING in 2016, combined with fieldwork on the Komandorsky Islands, our studies of the south...