Ice Flora (Bottom Type): A Mechanism of Primary Production in Polar Seas and the Growth of Diatoms in Sea Ice

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Meguro, Hiroshi, Ito, Kuniyuki, Fukushima, Hiroshi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1967
• Subjects: Atmospheric pressure; Beaches; Breakup; Climate change; Coast changes; Coasts; Diurnal variations; Erosion; Floods; Formation; Gravel; Ice cover; Sea level; Seasonal variations; Sediment transport; Storms; Tides; Winds; Velocity; Barrow region; Alaska; Barrow waters; Barrow; Point; region; waters; Arctic; Brune; Antarc*; Antarctique*; Arctique*; Point Barrow; Sea ice; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66338

A yellowish-brown layer at the bottom of summer sea ice, upturned by an icebreaker, off the coast at Point Barrow, Alaska, extended up to 30 cm from the bottom. It consisted of large diatom colonies which were found to have been formed in brine included in fissures between vertically oriented ice cr...