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transverse profile. That is, opposing sides of many of the valleys appear to have quite dissimilar slope angles. Most striking is the apparent fre-quency with which the steeper slope angles are assumed by north-facing valley sides. The writer was, therefore, pleased to avail himself of the oppor-tun...
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| Summary: | transverse profile. That is, opposing sides of many of the valleys appear to have quite dissimilar slope angles. Most striking is the apparent fre-quency with which the steeper slope angles are assumed by north-facing valley sides. The writer was, therefore, pleased to avail himself of the oppor-tunity to examine in some detail the valley asymmetry in, and adjacent to the watershed of Ogotoruk Creek (Fig. l) , an area readily accessible from a base camp at the site of the proposed Project Chariot nuclear excavation. This paper seeks to give an indication of the degree to which valley asym-metry in the Ogotoruk Creek area is preferentially oriented and to discuss the asymmetry in terms of processes that may be responsible. Field observa-tions on which this paper is based were made during the summers of |
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