Maps of the Arctic Basin Sea Floor. Part II: Bathymetry and Gravity of the Alpha Ridge: The 1983 CESAR Expedition

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Weber, J.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Bathymetry; Canadian Expedition to Study the Alpha Ridge; Expeditions; Gravity measurement; Maps; Marine geology; SLAR; Alpha Ridge; Arctic Ocean; Amerasia Basin; Arctic; Dorsale; Ellesmere Island; Hercules; La Dorsale; North Ridge; alpha ridge; Arctic Basin; Arctique*; banquise; Dorsale Alpha; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64796

The general scarcity of geophysical data in the Arctic Ocean Basin and the lack of knowledge about the evolution of the Amerasia Basin and of the nature and origin of the Alpha Ridge led, in 1983, to the undertaking of a multidisciplinary polar expedition, code-named CESAR 83 for Canadian Expedition...