Glacial Boulders on the Arctic Coast of Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: McCarthy, Gerald R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1958
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrow Cape; Cape Simpson; Northern Foothills; Barrow; Brooks Range; glaciers; Iceberg*; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic3734; http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/3734/3708

Reports incidental observations made in the Barrow-Cape Simpson area 1949-50. Pleistocene glaciers of Alaska did not extend north beyond the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, yet glacial boulders have been reported near and along the coast. Altogether 56 such erratic boulders from sheltered sp...