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Science 2 February 1979:
Vol. 203. no. 4379, pp. 449 - 451
DOI: 10.1126/science.203.4379.449
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Fish, Crustaceans, and the Sea Floor Under the Ross Ice Shelf

P. M. BRUCHHAUSEN 1, J. A. RAYMOND 2, S. S. JACOBS 3, A. L. DEVRIES 4, E. M. THORNDIKE 3, and H. H. DEWITT 5

1 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
2 Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks 99701
3 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University
4 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
5 Department of Oceanography, University of Maine, Walpole 04573

Baited traps and a camera lowered through the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, at a point 475 kilometers from the open Ross Sea and to 597 meters below sea level revealed the presence of fish, many amphipods, and one isopod. Biological or current markings were not evident on a soft bottom littered with subangular lumps. A fish was caught through a crevasse 80 kilometers from the shelf edge.

Submitted on July 25, 1978
Revised on October 4, 1978


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