Abstract
Port Valdez is a relatively deep, narrow, glaciated reentrant in the northeastern part of Prince William Sound (Fig. 7-1). This east west trending typical U-shaped fjord is approximately 21 km long and 4.5 km wide, its shores are bordered by steep walls which extend beneath the water. Seaward the depth increases rapidly to form a high-angle slope, but farther offshore the fjord is a flat-bottomed trough with a maximum depth of about 240 m. At its mouth, the Valdez Narrows, a nearly right-angle structural constriction (about 1.5 km wide) with two sills, connects the fjord with Port Valdez Arm and Prince William Sound.
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Sharma, G.D. (1979). Port Valdez. In: The Alaskan Shelf. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6194-0_7
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