First bedrock samples dredged from submarine outcrops in the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Brumley, Kelley, Miller, Elizabeth L, Konstantinou, Alexandros, Grove, Marty, Meisling, Kristian E, Mayer, Larry A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2015
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; bedrock; chukchi; dredging; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Arctic; Svalbard; Canada; Chukchi Borderland; Chukchi; Extended Continental Shelf Project
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/1134; http://geosphere.gsapubs.org/content/11/1/76.abstract

The Chukchi Borderland, a prominent bathymetric feature within the Arctic Ocean, has been interpreted as a fragment of an undeformed continental platform sequence rifted from the passive margin of Arctic Canada. Dredges collected for the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf project aboard the icebreaker...