Fresh Water Anchor Ice Along an Arctic Beach
Author(s) -
H. Eric Sadler,
Harold V. Serson
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
arctic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1923-1245
pISSN - 0004-0843
DOI - 10.14430/arctic2506
Subject(s) - geology , arctic ice pack , water ice , arctic , oceanography , ice formation , antarctic sea ice , the arctic , fresh water , sea ice , seabed gouging by ice , physical geography , geography , atmospheric sciences , astrobiology , physics , geotechnical engineering
Anchor ice is broadly defined ... as "submerged ice attached or anchored to the bottom, irrespective of the nature of its formation". We discuss here a form of anchor ice of which we can find no previous description. During August 1978 and 1979 we observed a belt of fresh-water anchor ice along 30 km of beach between Sheringham Point and Prospect Hills in southwest Cornwallis Island, N.W.T. ...
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