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PHYSIOGRAPHIC NOTES ON FEATURES IN THE MACKENZIE DELTA AREA
Author(s) -
Fraser J.K.
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1956.tb01851.x
Subject(s) - geology , debris , silt , geomorphology , landslide , alluvial fan , delta , alluvium , glacial period , deposition (geology) , river delta , physical geography , oceanography , geography , sediment , structural basin , engineering , aerospace engineering
Evidence is presented to show that a group of knobby hills on coalescing alluvial fans along the Richardson Mountains is landslide debris rather than glacial deposit, Associated with the debris are pingo‐like features and lenses of ground ice. A heavy layer of silt over remnant snowbanks is attributed to wind deposition.