TY  - GEN
T1  - Opportunities and priorities in Arctic geoscience
T2  - EBSCO Academic Collection
LA  - English
PP  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Academy Press
YR  - 1991
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm43475743
AB  - 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.
OP  - 67
CN  - QE350.6 .O66 1991eb
SN  - 0585085684
SN  - 9780585085685
SN  - 9780309583305
SN  - 0309583306
SN  - 0309044855
SN  - 9780309044851
KW  - Geology : Research : Greenland Basin.
KW  - Marine sediments : Research : Greenland Basin.
KW  - SCIENCE : Earth Sciences : General.
KW  - Geology : Research
KW  - Marine sediments : Research
KW  - Arctic Ocean : Greenland Basin
KW  - Geografie
KW  - Geologie
KW  - Arktis
KW  - Aardwetenschappen.
KW  - Glaciologie.
KW  - Noordpoolgebied.
KW  - Geographie
KW  - Geology : Research : Greenland : Basin
KW  - Marine : Research : Greenland : Basin
ER  -