Research assistant professor Louis Farquharson works at an ancient raised marine shoreline on the north shore of Teshekpuk Lake near Alaska’s Arctic Ocean coast in 2013. Photo by Ben Jones.
Evidence indicates a thick ice sheet, not annual sea ice and icebergs, covered the Arctic Ocean at some point during the last 140,000 years. Now, University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists will be looking for more geologic proof of the ice sheet’s existence, sources, behavior and extent.
UAF Geophysical Institute scientists will focus on the Beaufort and Chukchi seas region, both offshore and onshore.
They hope to discover the extent of glaciation and improve understanding of the timing of
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