Pliocene Marine Transgressions of Northern Alaska: Circumarctic Correlations and Paleoclimatic Interpretations

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Brigham-Grette, J., Carter, L.D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1992
• Subjects: Amino acid geochronology; Climatology; Geochemistry; Geological time; Mollusks; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeomagnetism; Palaeontology; Permafrost; Pleistocene epoch; Pliocene epoch; Sea level; Sediments (Geology); Stratigraphy; Alaska; Northern; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Banks Island; N.W.T; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Kamchatka; Poluostrov; Russian Federation; Meighen Island; Arctic; Kap; Parkland; Worth Point; Arctic Basin; Arctique*; Baffin; banquise; Groenland; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice; Seward Peninsula; toundra; Tundra; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64430

At least three marine transgressions of Piliocene age are recorded by littoral to inner-shelf sediments of the Gubik Formation, which mantles the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska. The three recognized transgressions were eustatic high sea levels that, from oldest to youngest, are informally n...