Setting

• Main Authors: Donald R. Currey, Between Kotzebue, Cape Lisburne
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.498.1766; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic17-2-84.pdf

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