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Morphology and stratal geometry of the Antarctic continental shelf: Insights from models

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Glacial morphology and depositional sequences of the Antarctic Continental Shelf

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Prydz channel fan and the history of extreme ice advances in Prydz Bay

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Sediment export by ice rafting from a coastal Polynya, Arctic Alaska, U.S.A.

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Depositional and erosional features of the inner shelf, northeastern Bering Sea.

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Disappearing Ice Shelves on Antarctic Peninsula

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Walrus areas of use in the Chukchi Sea during sparse sea ice cover

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Top predators in relation to bathymetry, ice and krill during austral winter in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

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Transport of 137Cs and 239,240Pu with ice-rafted debris in the Arctic Ocean

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Methane in coastal sea water, sea ice, and bottom sediments, Beaufort Sea, Alaska

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Data Supporting Walrus Areas of Use in the Chukchi Sea During Sparse Sea Ice Cover

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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice ahead of the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent on September 1, 2009.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice

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Ice Jam on the Niobrara River
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Glacial removal of late Cenozoic subglacially emplaced volcanic edifices by the West Antarctic ice sheet

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Ice-gouged microrelief on the floor of the eastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska: a reconnaissance survey

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Submarine glacial landforms on the Bay of Fundy–northern Gulf of Maine continental shelf

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Topographic controls on post-Oligocene changes in ice-sheet dynamics, Prydz Bay region, east Antarctica

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Surficial sediment character of the New York-New Jersey offshore continental shelf region: A GIS compilation

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Minimal offshore extent of ice-bearing (subsea) permafrost on the U.S. Beaufort Sea margin

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Landsat In Action - Monitoring Polar Ice Caps with Ted Scambos
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Tropical shoreline ice in the late Cambrian: Implications for earth's climate between the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

Presentations and Events

USGS Public Lecture: Warm Ice—Dynamics of Rapidly Changing Glaciers
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Shallow geology, seafloor texture, and physiographic zones of the Inner Continental Shelf from Nahant to northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts

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Does the late Pliocene change in the architecture of the Antarctic margin correspond to the transition to the modern Antarctic Ice Sheet?

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Tracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice
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East Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics between 5.2 and 0 Ma from a high-resolution terrigenous particle size record, ODP Site 1165, Prydz Bay-Cooperation Sea

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Satellite image showing the Pine Glacier

Pine Island Glacier’s Newest Iceberg
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Illustration of part of Antarctica

Image of the Week - Rifts & Rumples in Antarctica
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Diatom evidence for the onset of Pliocene cooling from AND-1B, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

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Scenic view of the Beaufort Sea in AK. Beach, driftwood, ocean, and view of clouds against a blue and golden sky.

New 2,000-year record of ocean and climate variability in the Beaufort Sea documents recent rapid changes in water mass properties

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