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Science 19 November 1971:
Vol. 174. no. 4011, pp. 816 - 818
DOI: 10.1126/science.174.4011.816
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Submarine Pingos in the Beaufort Sea

J. M. Shearer 1, R. F. Macnab 2, B. R. Pelletier 2, and T. B. Smith 2

1 Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2 Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratory, Bedford Institute, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Numerous underwater mounds found on the continental shelf of the Beaufort Sea are thought to be pingos (hills that have a central core of ice) which have formed in the marine environment subsequent to oceanic transgression.

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