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East Siberian Sea

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East Siberian Sea

Part of the Arctic Ocean, off the north coast of Russia, between the New Siberian Islands and the Chukchi Sea. The world's widest continental shelf, with an average width of nearly 650 km/404 mi, lies in the East Siberian Sea.



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First spotted on satellite images in 1983, the plumes are extremely thin cloud trails stretching hundreds of kilometers downwind of tiny Bennett Island, located in the East Siberian Sea.
Mountains give rise to perplexing plumes by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
Dunton, Schell and co-workers from Alaska, Texas and the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad have now extended the known zooplankton gradient--the range over which its carbon isotope ratio changes--from the eastern Beaufor t Sea down to the Bering Sea and eastward into the Soviet East Siberian Sea.
Food chains: the carbon link; borrowing a technique from ... by Hart, Stephen / Science News
In 1810, a Russian industrialist namedJacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands in the East Siberian Sea, looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new continent.
Cloud conundrums; satellites have spied strange plumes coming from ... by Weisburd, Stefi / Science News
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