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Uniting the Arctic frontiers – International cooperation on circum-Arctic geological and geophysical maps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2014

O.V. Petrov  and
M. Smelror
O.V. Petrov
Affiliation:
VSEGEI, 74 Sredny Prospect, 199106 St. Petersburg, Russia
M. Smelror
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Norway, Box 6315 Sluppen, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway (Morten.Smelror@ngu.no)
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Abstract

Following an initiative taken by the Russian Ministry of Natural resources and Ecology and by the Federal Agency of Mineral Resources (Rosnedra) in 2003 international cooperation on compiling a new generation of circum-Arctic geological and geophysical maps (in scale 1: 5 000 000) was undertaken by a consortium of national agencies from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the USA. The polar stereographic maps include onshore and offshore geological coverage to 60° N. The bedrock map and database was first published in 2008, the geophysical maps were completed in 2010, while a tectonic map is currently in press. The new circum-Arctic maps are formally published under the Comission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW/CCGM). A metallogenic map and database of the main occurrences of onshore and offshore metal deposits is scheduled to be completed in 2016.

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Research Article
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Polar Record , Volume 51 , Issue 5 , September 2015 , pp. 530 - 535
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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