An Unusual Case of Stream Piracy

• Main Authors: Reckendorf, Frank, Hussey, Keith M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: UNI ScholarWorks 1962
• Subjects: Arctic; Hawk Creek; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol69/iss1/52; https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/pias/article/2387/viewcontent/52_An_Unusual_Case_of_Stream_Piracy.pdf

An unusual case of stream piracy took place in the recent past through the Franklin Bluffs on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. The Sagavanirktok River and Hawk Creek occupied opposite positions on the sides of a ridge, with the result of a rapid lowering of the divide between them. Loss of cement...