| Abstract: | The first preliminary bathymetry (at 1:20,000 scale) and other scientific investigations of Northwestern Fiord, Alaska, were conducted by the Research Vessel Growler in 1978, disclosing this 10.5-mile-long branched waterway to be a deep basin enclosed by a terminal-moraine shoal. The basin was formerly filled by Northwestern Glacier, which began a drastic retreat around 1909 and reached the head of the main arm around 1960. Soundings and profiles show the main channel to be as much as 970 feet deep and to have the typical U shape of a severely glacially eroded valley; since the glacier ‘s retreat, sediments have formed nearly level deposits in the deepest reaches, while the rest of the basin has a hard, rocky bottom. Preneoglacial forest debris dated by carbon-14 indicates Northwestern Glacier to have advanced into the fiord prior to 1,385 years before present (B.P.); a branch glacier evidently advanced into forest 1,635 years B.P. The combined glaciers from several arms culminated on the present terminal-moraine shoal around 1894. (USGS) |
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| Citation Author: | Post, Austin |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 2 maps ;93 x 95 cm. |
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| Citation Series Number: | 80-414 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Preliminary bathymetry of Northwestern Fiord and Neoglacial changes of Northwestern Glacier; 1980; OFR; 80-414; Post, Austin |
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| Text: | Preliminary bathymetry of Northwestern Fiord and Neoglacial changes of Northwestern Glacier; 1980; OFR; 80-414; Post, Austin |
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