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Gastineau Channel

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{{Expand German|Gastineau Channel|date=July 2012}}Gastineau Channel is a channel between the mainland of the U.S. state of Alaska and Douglas Island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska. It separates Juneau on the mainland side from Douglas (now part of Juneau), on Douglas Island. The first European to sight the channel was Joseph Whidbey early in August 1794, first from the south and later from the west.^[1] It was probably named for John Gastineau, an English civil engineer and surveyor.^[2]^[3]

The channel is navigable by large ships, only from the southeast, as far as the Douglas Bridge, approximately {{convert|9.7|mi}}. Between the bridge and Juneau International Airport, approximately {{convert|8.1|mi}}, it is navigable only by smaller craft and only at high tide.

The channel is becoming increasingly unnavigable due to shallow water depths. The two principal causes for this are:

Isostatic rebound following the retreat of glacial ice sheets
Sedimentation and infilling of the Gastineau Channel by silty sediment produced by the Mendenhall Glacier and Mendenhall River.

If current trends continue, Gastineau Channel may eventually become dry or unnavigable or both.

During isostatic rebound, the Earth's lithosphere (crust) is slowly rising because of buoyant forces, following the removal of a large mass on the surface. Thatcan be likened to an ice cube floating in a glass of water with a penny sitting on top. The weight of the penny makes the ice cube float lower, similar to the immense weight of a glacier on top of the lithosphere. When the penny (glacier) is removed, the ice cube (lithosphere) "rebounds" and floats slightly higher. In the geologic case, that scenario happens very slowly. Rates of isostatic rebound throughout SE Alaska vary from 0.1 to 1.5 inches/year depending on glacial history. The approximate rebound rate in the Juneau area is 0.25 to 0.5 inches/year.^[4]

References

1. ^{{cite book | last = Vancouver | first = George, and John Vancouver | title = A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world | publisher = J. Stockdale | year = 1801; vols. I-VI | location = London| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qwol8bPaYxsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
2. ^{{gnis|1402497|Gastineau Channel}}
3. ^http://www.ggsalaska.org Gastineau Genealogical Society
4. ^{{cite journal|last=Motyka|first=R.J.|title=Little Ice Age Subsidence and Post Little Ice Age uplift at Juneau, Alaska, Inferred From Dendrochronology and Geomorphology|journal=Quaternary Research|date=May 2003|volume=59|issue=3|pages=300–309|bibcode=2003QuRes..59..300M|doi=10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00032-2}}

3 : Bodies of water of Juneau, Alaska|Straits of Alaska|Straits of the Pacific Ocean

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