Sources of Sediment Found in Sea Ice From the Western Arctic Ocean, New Insights Into Processes of Entrainment and Drift Patterns

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Author: Darby, Dennis A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 2003
• Subjects: Continental shelf processes; Sediment transport; Artic Ocean; Sea ice; Fe oxide minerals; Surface circulation; Ice drift; Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Laptev Sea; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi Borderland; Banks Island; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; laptev; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/oeas_fac_pubs/322; https://doi.org/10.1029/2002jc001350; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/context/oeas_fac_pubs/article/1333/viewcontent/Darby_2003_sources_of_sediment.pdf

The geochemical fingerprint of entrained Fe oxide mineral grains in Arctic Ocean sea ice is used to determine precise sources of this sediment. This approach substantiates the importance of the Laptev Sea as a source of sea ice and even the presence of Russian ice in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska. Fe...