Toolik Lake Area Surficial Geology

 

Toolik Lake Area Surficial Geology

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(from metadata) The map encloses a 20 km2 area surrounding Toolik Lake that stretches from the Dalton Highway on the east to Jade Mountain on the west. It includes the Toolik Field Station, the old Toolik Lake pipeline construction camp gravel pad and airstrip on the northeast side of the lake, and the primary terrestrial research areas on the south, west and east sides of the lake, as well as several smaller research lakes in the immediate vicinity of Toolik Lake. The area contains surfaces with irregular topography that were glaciated during the Late Pleistocene. The Toolik Lake area map of surficial geology was clipped so that it could be displayed as a rectangle within the map frame, eliminating the diagonal borders.

Surficial geology affects vegetation patterns and disturbance recovery rates. Surficial geology was grouped into the following classes for map display: