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    Encyclopedia Arctica Volume 1: Geology and Allied Subjects



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            The papers in this volume are in the form intended

    for submission, in 1950, to the editors of the publishers, who

    then were the Johns Hopkins Press of Baltimore.

            It was anticipated that after an editing by the pub–

    lishers their resulting version would be re-edited by the

    Encyclopedia Arctica staff. In cases of disagreement, a final

    version was to be arrived at by the two groups of editors.

            Those who use the present typescript will no doubt

    find in it errors that would have been eliminated by one

    group of editors or the other. Doubtless, too, there would

    have been additions as well as other changes not due to dis–

    covered errors.

           

    Viljhalmur Stefansson

    Dartmouth College Library

    Hanover, New Hampshire

    December 9, 1954



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    ENCYCLOPEDIA ARCTICA

    Sponsored by

    Office of Naval Research

    Department of the Navy

    Washington, D.C.

    Editor

    Vilhjalmur Stefansson

    Assistant Editor

    Olive Wilcox

    VOLUME I

    GEOLOGY AND ALLIED SUBJECTS

    The Stefansson Library

    4 St. Luke's Place

    New York 14

    April 15, 1950



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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Subject Author Words
    Not included Introduction:

    Unfurling the Arctic Map     		John C. Weaver 33,600
    Glossary of Snow, Ice, and

    Permafrost Terms     		The Editors 21,000
    Geology
    Outline of the Economic Geology

    of Alaska     		Robert E. Fellows 14,000
    Physiography of Alaska Clyde Wahrhaftig 12,000
    Stratigraphy and Geologic

    History of Alaska     		George O. Gates 13,000
    Explorations in Alaska by the

    United States Geological Survey     		Philip Sidney Smith 11,000
    Volcanoes of Alaska Robert R. Coats 6,000
    Earthquakes in the Arctic Area Beno Gutenberg 3,000
    Meteorological Factors Affect–

    ing Variation of Glaciers

    Along the Alaskan Coast     		William O. Field, Jr. 1,500
    Geology of Arctic Canada J. Tuzo Wilson 11,000
    Geology of Greenland Arne Noe-Nygaard

    (with collaboration of

    Chr. Poulsen, Alfred Rosen–

    krantz, J. Tuzo Wilson)     		8,500



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    Subject Author Words
    Geology of Svalbard Anders K. Orvin 9,200
    Geology of Siberia Vladimir Obruchev

    (translation by Mark Burgunker)     		16,300
    Geology of the European North,

    U.S.S.R.     		G. D. Rikhter

    (translation by Ordway

    Southard)     		4,500
    Geology of Novaya Zemlya N. V. Pinegin

    (translation by Ordway

    Southard)     		700
    Hydrology
    Arctic and Subarctic Hydrology Lorenz George Straub

    (with collaboration of

    Loyal A. Johnson)     		17,000
    Glaciology
    Former Glaciation of the Arctic

    Region     		Richard Foster Flint 10,000
    Glaciers in the Arctic Robert P. Sharp 30,000
    Geophysics
    Geophysics J. Tuzo Wilson 5,700
    Arctic Aspects of Geomagnetism David G. Knapp 27,000
    The Search for the North Mag–

    netic Pole     		R. Glenn Madill 3,100
    The Aurora Borealis Carl W. Gartlein 6,500



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    CONSULTANTS, VOLUME I

    Geology: Dr. Richard Foster Flint, Professor of Geology,

    Yale University; Senior Geologist, U.S. Geological

    Survey.
    Dr. John Calvin Reed, Staff Geologist, Territories

    and Island Possessions, U.S. Geological Survey.
    Geophysics: Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson, Professor of Geophysics,

    University of Toronto.
    Hydrology: Dr. Lorenz G. Straub, Professor of Hydraulics and

    head of Department of Civil Engineering, University

    of Minnesota; Director, St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic

    Laboratory, Hennepin Island, Minneapolis.



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    CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME I

    Robert R. Coats U.S. Geological Survey.
    Robert E. Fellows U.S. Geological Survey.
    William O. Field, Jr. Exploration and Field Research, American Geographical Society.
    Richard Foster Flint Professor of Geology, Yale University; Senior Geologist,

    U.S. Geological Survey.
    Carl W. Gartlein Superintendent, Technical Service Personnel, Department of

    Physics, Cornell University; Director, National Geographic

    Society and Cornell University study of Aurora.
    George O. Gates U.S. Geological Survey.
    Beno Gutenberg Professor of Geophysics and Meteorology; Director, Seis–

    mological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
    Loyal A. Johnson St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Hennepin Island,

    Minneapolis.
    David G. Knapp Mathematician, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
    R. Glenn Madill Chief, Division of Terrestrial Magnetism, Dominion

    Observatory, Ottawa.
    Arne Noe-Nygaard Mineralogisk Museum, Mineralogisk-Geologiske Institut,

    University of Copenhagen.
    Vladimir Obruchev Soviet Geologist; member USSR Academy of Sciences, head of

    Department of Geological and Geographical Sciences.
    Anders K. Orvin Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo.
    N. V. Pinegin Soviet Geographer.
    Chr. Poulsen Mineralogisk Museum, Mineralogisk-Geologiske Institut,

    University of Copenhagen.
    G. D. Rikhter Soviet Geographer.
    Alfred Rosenkrantz Mineralogisk Museum, Mineralogisk-Geologiske Institut,

    University of Copenhagen.



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    Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geomorphology, California Institute of Technology.
    Philip Sidney Smith Formerly Chief Alaskan Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey.
    Lorenz George Straub Professor of Hydraulics and head of Department of Civil

    Engineering, University of Minnesota; Director, St. Anthony

    Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Hennepin Island, Minneapolis.
    Clyde Wahrhaftig U.S. Geological Survey.
    John C. Weaver Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota.
    J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics, University of Toronto.

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