Erk Reimnitz

Biographic Data

ID8549745
NAMEErk Reimnitz
GIVEN NAMESErk
FAMILY NAMEReimnitz
SIGNATUREREIMNITZ E
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Geological Survey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX0

  • Transport of 137Cs And 239,240Pu with Ice-rafted Debris in the Arctic Ocean

    Open AccessEdward R Landa, Erk Reimnitz et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1998

    Ice rafting is the dominant mechanism responsible for the transport of fine-grained sediments from coastal zones to the deep Arctic Basin. Therefore, the drift of ice-rafted debris (IRD) could be a significant transport mechanism from the shelf to the deep basin for radionuclides originating from nuclear fuel cycle activities and released to coastal Arctic regions of the former Soviet Union. In this study, 28 samples of IRD collected from the Arc…

  • Changes in Driftwood Delivery to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: The Hypothesis of Postglacial Oscillations of the Transpolar Drift

    Open AccessArthur S Dyke, John England et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1997

    Driftwood appears to be absent in the Beaufort Gyre but abundant in parts of the Transpolar Drift (TPD), which crosses the Arctic Ocean from the Chukchi Sea to the vicinity of northeastern Greenland. Nearly 300 radiocarbon dates on Holocene driftwood from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago reveal two regions with contrasting histories of driftwood incursion: the region accessible to wood brought into Baffin Bay by the West Greenland Current and the …

  • Multiyear Fast Ice along the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia

    Open AccessErk Reimnitz, Hajo Eicken et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1995

    A 20 km wide zone of fast ice, reaching offshore to the 20 m isobath and sealing off coastal embayments along the Taymyr Peninsula, survived until at least 23 November 1993, becoming multiyear land-fast sea ice (MLSI). Barrier islands show characteristic recurved spits indicating dominant southeastward direction of longshore transport in intermittent years. At the time of observation, the fast ice was undisturbed, only heaving vertically with tid…

  • An Arctic Kelp Community in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea

    Open AccessKenneth H Dunton, Erk Reimnitz et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1982

    The discovery of the "Boulder Patch", an area of cobbles and boulders with attached kelp and invertebrate life, is reported from Stefansson Sound, near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Geophysical surveys using side-scan sonar and low-frequency recording fathometers reveal that cobbles and boulders occur in patches of various sizes and densities. Despite a seasonal influx of sediments, the Boulder Patch is a nondepositional environment. Physical disruption o…

  • Effects of Storm Surges on the Beaufort Sea Coast, Northern Alaska

    Open AccessErk Reimnitz, Douglas K MaurerARTICLEARCTIC1979

    In 1970, a major storm surge caused by gale-force westerly winds inundated low-lying tundra plains and deltas as far as 5000 m inland and left a driftwood line as much as 3.4 m above normal sea level along the Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska. The height of the surge followed a predictable pattern and was highest along windward-facing shorelines. Coastal retreat and thermoerosion are greatly accelerated on such west-facing shores with eastward sedime…

  • Distribution and Character of Naleds in Northeastern Alaska

    Open AccessDeborah Harden, Deborah Reid Harden et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1977

    Satellite imagery and high- and low-altitude aerial photography of the North Slope of Alaska indicate that naleds (features formed during river icing) are widespread east of the Colville River but less abundant to its west. Where naleds occur, stream channels are wide and often braided. Their distribution can be related to changes in stream gradient and to the occurrence of springs. Large naleds, such as occur on the Kongakut River, often survive…