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Location of the Chukchi Sea Shelf in the Arctic Ocean
The Chukchi Shelf or Chukchi Sea Shelf is the westernmost part of the continental shelf of the United States and the easternmost part of the continental shelf of Russia. In the west it merges with the Russian Siberian Shelf. Within this shelf, the 50-mile Chukchi Corridor acts as a passageway for one of the largest marine mammal migrations in the world.
The main geological features of the Chukchi Shelf are the Hope Basin and the Herald Thrust, a basement uplift cored by Cretaceous thrust faults. The latter is named after Herald Island. Off the northwestern Alaskan coast there is a Jurassic rift basin, the Hannah Trough.[1] To the north of Alaska the Chukchi Shelf extends to form the Chukchi Plateau which protrudes into the Arctic Ocean geological zone.
The Chukchi Shelf is shared between Russia and the United States according to the June 1990 USSR–USA Maritime Boundary Agreement.
^Sherwood K., "Structure of Hanna Trough and Facies of Ellesmerian Sequence, U.S. Chukchi Shelf, Alaska", Geological Society of America, 2006.
The ChukchiShelf or Chukchi Sea Shelf is the westernmost part of the continental shelf of the United States and the easternmost part of the continental...
The Chukchi Sea Shelf is the westernmost part of the continental shelf of the United States and the easternmost part of the continental shelf of Russia...
the Russian shelf are typically named after the corresponding seas: Barents Shelf (Barents Sea Shelf), ChukchiShelf (Chukchi Sea Shelf), etc. With the...
subdivided into the Kara Shelf, the Laptev Shelf and the East Siberian Shelf. Eastwards it merges into the ChukchiShelf (of the Chukchi Sea) shared by Eurasia...
shelves: the Barents Shelf, Chukchi Sea Shelf and Siberian Shelf. Of these three, the Siberian Shelf is the largest such shelf in the world; it holds...
ice over the shallow (125 to 180 feet or 38 to 55 metres deep) Bering-Chukchishelf. 1960 – USS Seadragon transited the Northwest Passage under ice. 1962...
a subsea ridge extending from the continental shelf of the United States north of Alaska, the Chukchi Plateau is an important feature in maritime law...
Federal waters that extend beyond State jurisdiction. Beach evolution Chukchi Sea Shelf Coastal geography Coastal States Organization International Boundary...
Herald Shoal is a region of high benthic productivity on the Chukchi Sea shelf. It serves as rich foraging habitat for many species of marine mammals...
Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea, 1985. Mimeo Report. Gilbert JR (1989). "Aerial census of Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea, 1985". Marine Mammal...
also effect the delimitation of the extended continental shelf in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas: Ironically, each country's position within 200 nautical...
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United Nations to declare the Peanut Hole to be part of Russia's continental shelf. In November 2013, a United Nations subcommittee accepted the Russian argument...
geological feature of the Chukchi Sea Shelf. It lies off the Chukchi Sea coast of Alaska. Its area extends from the outer continental shelf of the Seward Peninsula...
historically was, it still has the most reliable ice present on the entire Chukchishelf. Due to the region’s high primary productivity, rich seafloor, and late...
Chukchi Sea appears to be shrimp, echiurid worms, cephalopods and polychaetes. The largest prey item consumed by beluga whales in the Eastern Chukchi...
the Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. Bristol Bay is the portion of the Bering Sea between the Alaska Peninsula...
are now located on the Kara Sea Shelf, New Siberian Islands and adjacent shelf, Alaska north of Brooks Ridge, Chukchi Peninsula in easternmost Siberia...
submarine canyon that straddles the boundary between the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. Compared to other nearby areas and the Canada Basin, the highly productive...
and Greenland. Other Circumpolar North indigenous peoples include the Chukchi, Evenks, Iñupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sámi, Yukaghir, Gwichʼin, and...
model, Wrangel, De Long and the New Siberian Islands and the parts of the Chukchi microcontinent were part of a small continent, Arctica. They subsequently...
adjacent seas. It is primarily found along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas and south to the northern Yellow Sea...
Due to these variations in the water level in the basin, the surrounding shelf and associated aprons have sometimes been dry land. At certain critical...
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острова; Aleut: Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or...
platform. Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the continental shelf, though they can also be used in lakes, inshore waters, and inland seas...
Laut Jawa, Javanese: Segara Jawa) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south...
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