TY  - BOOK
ED  - National Research Council (U.S.).
TI  - Opportunities and priorities in Arctic geoscience
T2  - EBSCO Academic Collection
SN  - 0585085684
AV  - QE350.6 .O66 1991eb
U1  - 559.8/072 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Academy Press
KW  - Geology
KW  - Research
KW  - Greenland Basin
KW  - Marine sediments
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Aardwetenschappen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Glaciologie
KW  - Geographie
KW  - swd
KW  - Geologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Arctic Ocean
KW  - Noordpoolgebied
KW  - Arktis
KW  - Greenland
KW  - Basin
KW  - Marine
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-67); Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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
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