RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES VOL. 7, ES5004, doi:10.2205/2005ES000180, 2005

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Figure 4. Physiographic image of the Sea of Okhotsk floor and major sources of Pleistocene ice inflow. Compiled from several sources, including the Okhotsk-Sea chart, presented in Figure 5: (1) principal directions of ice inflow from coastal mountains, (2) system of elongated ridges, linear scarps and furrows in West Kamchatka (suggestive of lateral moraines), (3) "submarine ridges of unknown origin", from "The Geomorphological Map of the USSR", on the scale of 1:2 500 000 (Moscow, GUGK, 1987), and (4) sites of offshore drilling recovering a Pleistonene lodgement-till bed overlain by marine sediments [Kuz'mina and Eremeeva, 1990]. Lettering: DZH - Dzhugdzhur Range; K - ice inflow from Koryak Highland; Sh - Trough of Shelikhov Bay; T - TINRO Deep; D - Deryugin Deep; L - Lebed' Trough; M - Makarov Trough; PS - Pioter-Shmidt Trough; OS - Institute of Oceanology Sill; AS - Academy Sill; KB - Kuril Basin; P - Paramushir Island; B - Bussol Strait.

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Citation: Grosswald, M. G., and T. J. Hughes (2005), "Back-arc" marine ice sheet in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 7, ES5004, doi:10.2205/2005ES000180.

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