Changes in driftwood delivery to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: The hypothesis of postglacial oscillations of the transpolar drift

Arctic

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-16

  Dyke, Arthur S ^a   England, John ^b   Reimnitz, Erk ^c   Jetté, Hélène ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beaufort Gyre; driftswood; ocean currents; sea ice; Transpolar Drift

Indexed keywords

BEAUFORT GYRE; DRIFTWOOD; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; TRANSPOLAR DRIFT;

CANADA, ARCTIC REGION;

EID: 0030618179     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1086     Document Type: Article

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