1957 ARCTIC RESEARCH REPORT - PHOTOGRAPHS & MAPS by MARSHALL SCHALK - WOODS HOLE for Sale

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1957 ARCTIC RESEARCH REPORT - PHOTOGRAPHS & MAPS by MARSHALL SCHALK - WOODS HOLE For Sale

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1957 ARCTIC RESEARCH REPORT - PHOTOGRAPHS & MAPS by MARSHALL SCHALK - WOODS HOLE:
$375.00

We are offering a RARE Arctic Research Laboratory [Hand-Typed Manuscript Report on Beach and Near-Shore Studies at Point Barrow, Alaska for the period July 1954 through January 1957. This report by Marshall Schalk was submitted to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on February 25, 1957. The manuscript (8" x 10 1/2") consists of 40 typed pages; 25 original photographs of equipment used and operating conditions in the Barrow area; and a total of 24 drawings, diagrams, charts and maps. The index list is as follows: Field Methods, Preparation of Profiles, Tides, Accuracy, Beach and Bottom Materials, The Plots, Long Lines, Micro Lines, Weather, Discussion and Conclusions.
Marshall Schalk (1907-1995) was a geologist whose interest in shoreline changes and submarine topography dated to the 1930s and 40s, when he worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and on Eleuthera in the Bahamas. In the 1950s and 60s he was active in studying the Arctic shoreline of Alaska. In the 1950s, as Assistant Professor of Geology at Smith College, while on sabbatical he was the first westerner to work at the Ujigawa Hydraulic Laboratory of Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan.
CONDITION: Excellent.The entire report is in a binder, with each page in its own plastic sleeve.