Dredged Bedrock Samples from the Amerasia Basin, Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Brumley, Kelley, Mukasa, Sam B., O'Brien, T M, Mayer, Larry A., Chayes, D
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2013
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Amerasian basin; bedrock; dredging; Earth Sciences; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Arctic; Svalbard; Ellesmere Island; Amerasia Basin; Chukchi Borderland; First Rock; Chukchi; Extended Continental Shelf Project; ice covered waters
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/695; http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/OS13B-1703.html

Between 2008-2012, as part of the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf project in the Amerasia Basin, Arctic Ocean, 17 dredges were successfully collected sampling the first rock outcrops in the Chukchi Borderland and surrounding regions for the purpose of describing the geologic nature of the bathymetri...