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Muir Inlet Morainal Bank Complex, Glacier Bay, S.E. Alaska

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Glaciated Continental Margins

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High-resolution seismic-reflection profiles illustrate the geometry and seismic characteristics of sedimentary facies within the Muir Inlet morainal bank complex. The interpreted sedimentary facies include a grounding-line fan, two stratified ridges, debris flow/turbidity current deposits and a field of push ridges (Figs. 1 and 2). This morainal bank complex was deposited on a shallow sill at the mouth of Muir Inlet, a fjord in Glacier Bay, between 1860 A.D. and 1899 A.D. during retreat from the Little Ice Age maximum. Profiles of the morainal bank complex were collected with a single channel 1.2 kJ uniboom (600 and 1700 Hz) system by the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA.

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  1. Dept. of Geology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA

    Keith C. Seramur & Ellen A. Cowan

  2. Dept. of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

    Ross D. Powell

  3. U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA

    Paul R. Carlson

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  1. Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austria, 8701 N. MoPac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759, USA

    Thomas A. Davies

  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Alexander Murray Bldg., St. John’s, NF, A1B 3X5, Canada

    Trevor Bell

  3. Marine and Coastal Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3591, USA

    Alan K. Cooper

  4. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B26 4A2, Canada

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  5. Byrd Polar Research Center, 1090 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

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  6. Norwegian Polar Institute, P.O. Box 5072, Majorstua, Oslo, N0301, Norway

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  7. Murchison House, British Geological Survey, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3LA, Scotland, UK

    Martyn S. Stoker

  8. Dept. of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA

    Jay A. Stravers

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Seramur, K.C., Powell, R.D., Carlson, P.R., Cowan, E.A. (1997). Muir Inlet Morainal Bank Complex, Glacier Bay, S.E. Alaska. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_34

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