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Characteristics of Soils Adjacent to the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories of Canada
Author(s) -
Leahey A.
Publication year - 1948
Publication title -
soil science society of america journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1435-0661
pISSN - 0361-5995
DOI - 10.2136/sssaj1948.036159950012000c0102x
Subject(s) - dominion , citation , service (business) , soil water , geography , library science , archaeology , history , environmental science , soil science , computer science , business , marketing
T observations reported in this paper were made during an exploratory soil survey traverse of the Mackenzie River Valley between August 2. and September 8, 1945. These observations are supplemented by chemical analyses of some of the soil samples collected at that time. Examination on soils were made only along or within a few miles of the river and no portion of the valley was investigated in detail. The Mackenzie River drains Great Slave Lake (Fig. i) with-its source at N. Lat. 61° 03', W. Long. 116° 30' and empties into the Arctic Ocean about N. Lat. 68° 50' W. Long. 135° 33'. The total length of the river is about 1,050 miles, a third of which lies north of the Arctic Circle. For the first 200 miles of its course this river flows westward through the northernmost part of the Great Plains. Striking the front range of the Mackenzie Mountains at Camsell Bend,, it flows northward through a mountain valley for about another 200 miles. Then the mountains gradually recede from the river and it flows through a northern plain until it reaches the sea. The altitude of the plains along the river is not great and none of the lands traversed had an altitude above 500 feet.