Itkillik Glaciation in the Brooks Range, Northern Alaska

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Hamilton, Thomas D., Porter, Stephen C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1975
• Subjects: Ela; Brooks Range; glacier; glaciers; Ice Sheet; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(75)90012-5; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589475900125?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589475900125?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400031616

During the Itkillik Glaciation the Brooks Range supported an extensive mountain-glacier complex that extended for 750 km between 141° and 158°W longitude. Individual ice streams and piedmont lobes flowed as much as 50 km beyond the north and south margins of the range. Glaciers in the southern Brook...