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The Gulf of Alaska area has experienced glaciation since Miocene time [Lagoe et al., 1993]. Large broad seavalleys that are incised in the continental shelf (Fig. 1) indicate that the extensive glaciers, which presently border the northeastern shore of the Gulf of Alaska, had lobes of ice that extended completely across the shelf [Carlson et al., 1982]. This chapter will concentrate on one of the glacially-carved seavalleys, the 25-km-wide Bering Trough (Fig. +1), that extends about 60 km across the shelf just seaward of the Bering Glacier, which recently re-advanced about 9 km between September, 1993 and September, 1994 [Molnia et al., 1994].
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Carlson, P.R., Bruns, T.R. (1997). Bering Trough: a Product of the Bering Glacier, Gulf of Alaska. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_85
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