Notes on the Shoreline Recession Along the Coast of the Yukon Territory

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Mackay, J. Ross
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1963
• Subjects: Coast changes; Geomorphology; History; Shorelines; Alaska; Northern; Herschel Island region; Yukon; Kay Point; King Point region; Mackenzie Delta; Herschel Island; Kay; King Point; Langton Bay; Arctic; Herschel
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66586

The 150-km.-long stretch of the coast between Herschel Island and the Mackenzie Delta terminates in bluffs cut into Pleistocene silts, sands, and gravels. No bedrock has yet been observed; if present, its occurrence must be very local. The coastal bluffs which are up to 50 m. high, are constantly be...