Feb 23, 2009 Comments Off
Erosion Doubles Along Part of Alaska’s Arctic Coast: Cultural and Historical Sites Lost
USGS Newsroom - The U.S. Geological Survey-led study reveals that average annual erosion rates along this part of the Beaufort Sea climbed from historical levels of about 20 feet per year between the mid-1950s and late-1970s, to 28 feet per year between the late-1970s and early 2000s, to a rate ...