Station: Chi'ijee's_Bluff
| Station ID: |
Chi'ijee's_Bluff [1] |
| Volcano: |
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| Collector: |
Reyes, A. V. |
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| NAD83 latitude: |
67.48333333 |
| NAD83 longitude: |
-139.9333333 |
| Default location: |
No |
| Location description: |
Four-km-long river exposure on the south bank of the Porcupine River in northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Approximately fifteen km downstream from the village of Old Crow. The bluff is comprised of middle Pliocene to latest Pleistocene alluvial and lacustrine sediments and is in the continuous permafrost zone, with permafrost about 60 m deep and active layer depths of 40-60 cm. Sites A, B, and C visited, see Figure 1d of Reyes and others (2010). Location coordinates provided as degrees/minutes/seconds in Reyes and others (2010) and converted to decimal degrees. Datum not provided, assumed to be NAD83. |
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References Cited
Reyes, A.V., Froese, D.G., and Jensen, B.L., 2010, Permafrost response to last interglacial warming: field evidence from non-glaciated Yukon and Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 29, n. 23024, p. 3256-3274, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.07.013 .