Arctic Refraction Catalogue Summary




Total number of seismic refraction profiles and total length by area:

Region Number of Profiles Length of Profiles (km)
Amerasian Basin (aa) 11 1494.37
Baffin Bay (bb) 33 782.00
Bering Sea (b) 13 1023.00
Alaska (al) 111 728.37
Barents-Kara Sea (bk) 7 2350.00
Eurasian Basin (e) 17 1066.00
Laptev Sea (l) 5 910.00
Canadian Polar Margin (c) 58 6059.02
Lomonosov Ridge (lr) 4 448.00
Norway (n) 743 N/A


Total number of profiles for all areas: 1002

Total length of profiles for all areas: 14860.76 km


Maximum depth and velocity of profiles by area:

Region Maximum Depth (km) Maximum Velocity (km/s)
Amerasian Basin (aa) 41.510 8.500
Alaska (al) 32.510 8.500
Bering Sea (b) 35.001 8.200
Baffin Bay (bb) 43.000 8.700
Barents-Kara Sea (bk) 50.200 9.000
Canadian Polar Margin (c) 45.100 8.500
Eurasian Basin (e) 18.010 8.300
Laptev Sea (l) 33.000 7.500
Lomonosov Ridge (lr) 2.940 6.200
Norway (n) 30.001 9.300



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