Recent marine sediments and submarine topography, Sverdrup Islands, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Main Author: Horn, David R.
• Other Authors: Folk, Robert L.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1967
• Subjects: Marine sediments > Arctic Ocean; Submarine topography > Arctic Ocean; Marine sediments > Arctic Archipelago (Nunavut and N.W.T.); Submarine topography > Arctic Archipelago (Nunavut and N.W.T.); Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Sverdrup Islands; Louise Fiord; Arctic Archipelago; polar desert; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/23993

text Submarine topographic features of the channels, sounds, fiords, and bays can best be explained as the products of extensive glacial excavation of a pre-existing drainage system. Troughs, hanging troughs, strings of deeps or basins, terminal sills, linear rises and depressions, and oversteepened...