Earth Flows Along Henry Creek, Northern Alaska
ABSTRACT. Many earth flows occurred during the summer of 1979 in the hilly terrain near Umiat, Alaska, particularly along Henry Creek. Most were shallow, involving only the tundra mat and no more than 1.5 m of the underlying mud. The summer of 1979 was the warmest and wettest for the period of recor...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.576.1933 2023-05-15T14:19:30+02:00 Earth Flows Along Henry Creek, Northern Alaska L. David Carter John P. Galloway The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.576.1933 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic34-4-325.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.576.1933 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic34-4-325.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic34-4-325.pdf Key words earth flows text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T12:45:47Z ABSTRACT. Many earth flows occurred during the summer of 1979 in the hilly terrain near Umiat, Alaska, particularly along Henry Creek. Most were shallow, involving only the tundra mat and no more than 1.5 m of the underlying mud. The summer of 1979 was the warmest and wettest for the period of record at Umiat, and precipitation was characterized by brief but intense localized rainstorms. Failure probably was triggered by the heavy rains and facilitated by an absorbent tundra mat over a clayey substrate, and perhaps in some cases by a thicker than normal ctive layer. Flows of this kind have occurred repeatedly in the Umiat area, most likely during summers in which climatic conditions were similar to those of 1979. Text Arctic Tundra Alaska Unknown Henry Creek ENVELOPE(-138.363,-138.363,64.769,64.769) |
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ABSTRACT. Many earth flows occurred during the summer of 1979 in the hilly terrain near Umiat, Alaska, particularly along Henry Creek. Most were shallow, involving only the tundra mat and no more than 1.5 m of the underlying mud. The summer of 1979 was the warmest and wettest for the period of record at Umiat, and precipitation was characterized by brief but intense localized rainstorms. Failure probably was triggered by the heavy rains and facilitated by an absorbent tundra mat over a clayey substrate, and perhaps in some cases by a thicker than normal ctive layer. Flows of this kind have occurred repeatedly in the Umiat area, most likely during summers in which climatic conditions were similar to those of 1979. |
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