BEAUFORT SEA– Marine scientists have discovered newly formed deep sinkholes in a remote part of the Arctic seafloor that is the size of an entire city block.“We discovered that the seafloor at the shelf edge of the Arctic Ocean is changing remarkably quickly,” said Charlie Paull, senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.Since 2003, MBARI has been part of an international collaboration to study the seafloor of the Canadian Beaufort Sea. Marine geologists have used an autonomous torpedo-like underwater robot to collect detailed surveys mapping the seafloor.
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