Title Opportunities and priorities in Arctic geoscience / Committee on Arctic Solid-Earth Geosciences, Polar Research Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 67 pages) : illustrations, maps Series EBSCO Academic Collection Summary There is broad agreement in the scientific community that the floor of the Arctic Ocean Basin contains potential answers to major unsolved problems in the earth sciences and that many of them pertain to questions that are of global scientific significance or pressing societal concern. However, because of the perennial sea ice, harsh climate, high field costs, and the absence of research platforms suitable for many types of investigations, this region is also one of the most poorly known on earth. Recent political and technological developments, including the apparent end of the Cold War and the prospective availability of nuclear submarines and powerful icebreakers as arctic research platforms, appear to provide possible means to overcome these formidable obstacles and, therefore, have the potential to enable revolutionizing our knowledge of the solid earth beneath the Arctic Ocean Basin. Some of the details of the circum-arctic geology are becoming known from efforts by government agencies, academic institutions, and industry. Because of the prospective logistic opportunities, and because of the disparity in geologic understanding that exists between the Arctic Ocean Basin and the circum-arctic landmasses, the Committee on Arctic Solid-Earth Geosciences recommends that the Arctic Ocean Basin and its margins, instead of the circum-arctic landmasses, be the focus of the next major augmentation of solid-earth geoscience research in the Arctic Analysis Arktis Geographie Geologie Geology Research Greenland Basin Marine Research Greenland Basin Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-67) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Geology -- Research -- Greenland Basin Marine sediments -- Research -- Greenland Basin SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General. Geology -- Research Marine sediments -- Research Geografie Geologie Aardwetenschappen. Glaciologie. Arctic Ocean -- Greenland Basin Arktis Noordpoolgebied. Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Arctic Solid-Earth Geosciences. LC no. 91060476 ISBN 0585085684 9780585085685 9780309583305 0309583306

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