Exploring the Origin of the Bering Sea: Initial Results of Cruise SO249-2 (17th July – 13th August 2016)

• Main Authors: Hauff, Folkmar, Werner, Reinhard, Portnyagin, Maxim, Baranov, B., Yogodzinski, G. M., Botcharnikov, R. E., Hoernle, Kaj, Silantyev, S., van den Bogaard, Paul
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Shirshov Ridge; Chukotka
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/34585/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/34585/1/2016_Hauff_AGU%20Fall%20Meeting_SO249.pdf

The Bering Sea is one of the largest marginal seas on Earth with still poorly understood origin and evolution. Cruise SO249-2 of the German research vessel Sonne explored the western half of Bering Sea by multibeam mapping, sediment profiling and dredge sampling in the framework of the joint German-...