Landscape Mapping in the Mackenzie River Valley

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Crampton, C.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1975
• Subjects: Nunavik; Québec; Labrador; Mackenzie River; Arctic; Mackenzie river; permafrost
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65896

Terrain over a wide area of the Mackenzie River valley was evaluated on the basis of vegetation-landform patterns, identifiable in air photographs as landscape units, which could be grouped into regions with climatic connotations. From a ground inspection of selected sites, it was shown that each landscape unit comprised a complex of elements characterized by permafrost relationships. An evaluation of the terrain over a much wider area was extrapolated from the air photographs. Vegetation or landform alone did not permit of a satisfactory delineation of regions with climatic connotations, since they were both so diffusely distributed.