Cold-water carbonates: Middleton Island, Alaska:
   
satellite view of the gulf of alaska photo of shipwreck
photo of middleton island photo of kittywake
photo of camp photo of group
photo of terrace photo of middleton island
photo of group photo of limestone
photo of eric hiatt photo of gastropod
photo of brachiopod photo of limestone
photo of bryozoa photo of group
photo of fossil pectin photo of group
photo of Noel and Kurt photo of boulder pavement
   
   
photo of modern mussels and barnacles photo of facetted boulder

Related Publications and Presentations:

James, N.P., Eyles, C.H., Eyles, N., Hiatt, E.E., and Kyser, T. K., 2009, Oceanographic significance of an extreme cold-water carbonate environment: glaciomarine sediments of the Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton Island, Alaska: Sedimentology, In Press.

James, N.P., Eyles, C.H., Eyles, N., Hiatt, Eric E., Kyser, T.K., 2006, Oceanographic significance of an extreme cold-water carbonate environment: glaciomarine sediments of the Pleistocene Yakataga Formation, Middleton island, Alaska: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 89.

 

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