Ogotoruk Creek Botanical Investigations: Preliminary Studies on the Influence of Frost Action and Related Phenomena on the Vegetation of the Ogotoruk Creek Valley

This is a preliminary report and is NOT FOR PUBLICATION Introduction -- Background -- Relationships between vegetation types -- Description and nomenclature of Ogotoruk Valley patterned ground features -- Nonsorted features: frost scars, polygons and nets, steps and stripes, solifluction terraces --...

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Main Author: Johnson, Albert W.
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska 1960
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2689
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Summary:This is a preliminary report and is NOT FOR PUBLICATION Introduction -- Background -- Relationships between vegetation types -- Description and nomenclature of Ogotoruk Valley patterned ground features -- Nonsorted features: frost scars, polygons and nets, steps and stripes, solifluction terraces -- Sorted features: polygons, circles, nets, steps and stripes -- Vegetation-Frost Feature relationships: Eriophorum-Carex wet meadow type, Eriophorum tussock type, Carex bigelowii frost scar type , Transitions, Summary, Other vegetation types: Dryas fellfield, Dryas steps and stripes -- Other physical features of influence on the vegetation -- mudflows -- Succession and Climax in the Ogotoruk Valley, a preliminary discussion -- Literature Cited