Changes in Driftwood Delivery to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: The Hypothesis of Postglacial Oscillations of the Transpolar Drift

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Dyke, Arthur S., England, John, Reimnitz, Erk, Jetté, Hélène
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1997
• Subjects: driftwood; Transpolar Drift; Beaufort Gyre; sea ice; ocean currents; bois flotté; courant transpolaire; circulation de Beaufort; glace de mer; courants océaniques; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Baie de Baffin; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Chukchi Sea; Greenland; Arctic Archipelago; Arctique*; Baffin; Chukchi; East Greenland; east greenland current; Fram Strait; Groenland; groenlandais; Mer des Tchouktches; North Atlantic; Sea ice; Tchouktche*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64142

Driftwood appears to be absent in the Beaufort Gyre but abundant in parts of the Transpolar Drift (TPD), which crosses the Arctic Ocean from the Chukchi Sea to the vicinity of northeastern Greenland. Nearly 300 radiocarbon dates on Holocene driftwood from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago reveal two r...