Reconnaissance interpretation of 1978-1981 permafrost, Alaska Highway corridor, Tetlin Junction to Canada border, Alaska

Description

During 2009 the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) conducted reconnaissance interpretive mapping of permafrost in Alaska Highway Corridor Segment 3, a 12-mi-wide (19.3-km-wide) corridor that straddles the Alaska Highway through the Northway-Tanacross Lowland and the southern Yukon-Tanana Upland from Tetlin Junction to the Canada border. This work was an extension of permafrost mapping done in Alaska Highway Corridor Segment 1 from Delta Junction to Dot Lake in the Big Delta and Mt. Hayes Quadrangles during 2006-2007 and Alaska Highway Corridor Segment 2 from the Robertson River to Tetlin Junction in the Tanacross Quadrangles during 2008. Primarily, we inferred the extent of permafrost and ice content by interpreting ~1:65,000-scale, false-color infrared aerial photographs taken in July 1978 and August 1981.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/23444
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/19742
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/19743
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/19741
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/17621
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/21121
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/17901
0 CSDGM IMPORT ERROR: No digtinfo/formcont http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/23444
0 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/17981

Tags

  • tanacross quadrangle
  • pleistocene
  • alaska
  • proposed natural gas pipeline
  • canada
  • quaternary
  • holocene
  • northway junction
  • alaska highway corridor
  • engineering geology
  • transportation corridor
  • tanana river
  • geology
  • state of
  • tanacross
  • nabesna
  • subsidence
  • geologic map
  • tetlin national wildlife refuge
  • nabesna river
  • climate change
  • northway
  • chisana river
  • tetlin junction
  • nabesna quadrangle
  • midway lake
  • beaver creek
  • pingos
  • geological process
  • scottie creek
  • thaw lakes
  • ice
  • gasline
  • geologic hazards
  • remote sensing
  • permafrost

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  • Local Government

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