Widespread, multi-source glacial erosion on the Chukchi margin, Arctic Ocean

Dove, Dayton; Polyak, Leonid; Coakley, Bernard. 2014 Widespread, multi-source glacial erosion on the Chukchi margin, Arctic Ocean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 92. 112-122. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.016

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Abstract/Summary

Multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profiler data acquired in 2011 from R/V Marcus Langseth in a broad grid over the Chukchi Sea margin reveal multiple glacigenic features on the top and slopes of the outer Chukchi Shelf/Rise and adjacent Borderland. Glacial lineations record a complex pattern of erosion likely formed by both local glaciation and far-traveled ice shelves/streams sourced from the Laurentide, and possibly East Siberian ice sheets. Multiple till units and stacked debris flows indicate recurrent glacial grounding events. Composite till wedges of several hundred meters thick extend the shelf edge by 10–20 km in places. Distribution of ice-marginal features on the Chukchi Rise suggests stepwise deglacial retreat towards the shelf, backing up the broad bathymetric trough at the eastern side of the Rise. Glacigenic features other than extensive iceberg scouring cannot be identified above 350-m depth, and no glacigenic bedforms are present on the current-swept shallow shelf. Despite the resulting uncertainty with the southern extent of the glaciation, the data suggest a widespread grounded-ice presence on the northern Chukchi Shelf, which makes it an important, previously underestimated component of the Arctic paleo-glacial system.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.016
ISSN:	02773791
Date made live:	25 Jul 2014 08:09 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507916

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