32nd IGC - Florence, 2004
Abstract title

DYNAMIC GEOLOGY MAP OF THE ARCTIC

Authors
BURSKY ANATOLY 1, GUSEV EUGENE 1, POGREBITSKY JULIAN 1

presenter's e-mail: grikurov@mail.lanck.net

1 - VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA

Keywords
ARCTIC 
GEOLOGY 
ENVIRONMENT 
DATABASE 

Abstract
An international circumpolar map of dynamic geology of the Arctic is envisaged for the entire Arctic region in its natural limits. It is intended to serve as a basis for capturing the distribution of environmental geology settings and performing their system analysis, with a view to identify the natural hazards and menacing processes that may threaten human habitation and sustainable development in the Arctic. The compilation of the map is in progress that can already be demonstrated for the Euro-Asian sector of the Arctic Ocean and its shelves.
The database for the map is based on GIS technologies and designed to integrate a variety of elements characterizing mainly the neotectonic, Quaternary geology and modern dynamic geology processes; among the latter, the primary importance is given to activity of sediment transport by rivers, coastal dynamics, sea-floor deposition, earthquake epicenters, and permafrost distribution. The data have primarily been sourced from 1:1,000,000 sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation compiled at VNIIOkeangeologia, as well as from the results of marine investigations performed by Russian ice-drifting stations and research vessels.


ACCEPTED as Poster Presentation
in session: "T12.01 - Earth imaging: modeling and databanks. A prospective for the 21st century after more than a hundred years of mapping experience"


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