Download or read book Ice Scour Data Base for the Beaufort Sea written by G. Gilbert and published by Geoterrex Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounding of sea ice on high-latitude continental shelves of the world represent a geologic constraint to safe installation of subsea petroleum faciliaties. To faciliate assessment of seabottom ice scouring on marine design criteria, computerized data-management system has been established for Canadian Beaufort Sea. Side-scan sonar, bathymetric, and sub-bottom profile acoustic data are digitized and computer processed to produce various scour parameters that are incorporated into a compreshensive, location-reference data file.