From an examination of seismic conditions and the located site of origin for the tsunami of 1969 probable borders of the tsunamigenic zone in the western Bering Sea were determined. A chart of covering the coast by tsunamis was compiled
the height of tsunamis in the western Bering Sea because of refraction is 0.88, i. e. three times as many as the corresponding probability for the Pacific coast of the Kuril Islands and the Kamtchatka Peninsula. - (L'Ed.).
Radiocarbon-dated whalebones from raised beaches record a relative sea-level history for Broggerhalvoya, western Spitsbergen, that suggest a two-step deglaciation on Svalbard at the end of the late Weichselian glaciation.
The morphology, sediments and processes associated with the construction of a moraine along the western margin of the ice-shelf in George VI Sound, Antarctica, are discussed. A conceptual model of the moraine is developed and may help to explain
Summer in western Spitzbergen is caracteristic of the oceanic polar climate: temperatures most of the time are situated between 0C and 12C, frost and snow are rare, except at the beginning and the end of the season. The hostility of the climate