Rooftop Ridge/Racetrack Basin

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1604

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Roof rack

• Parent Project:

  North Slope

• Status:

  Active

• Description:

  Geologic mapping of the Rooftop Ridge and Racetrack Basin areas, central North Slope, covering the Chandler Lake D-1 and northeastern D-2 quadrangle. This is the 2020 and 2021 STATEMAP project, funded by USGS grant no. G20AC00367 and (G21AC10706). 2020 field work in the Rooftop Ridge area was postponed to summer of 2021 due to COVID-19 and done in conjunction with Racetrack Basin field work.

• Project Date(s):

  2020 - present

• Primary Contact:

  Herriott, Trystan M.

• DGGS section:

  Energy Resources

• Project Participants:

  Marwan A. Wartes, Robert J. Gillis, Trystan M. Herriott, Mandy L. Willingham, Samantha E. Portnoy

• Stations/Samples:

  View list

Publications

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PIR 2025-5

Herriott, T.M., Wartes, M.A., Gillis, R.J., Willingham, A.L., and Qureshi, K.A., 2025, Geologic map of the Rooftop Ridge area, central North Slope, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2025-5, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360. https://doi.org/10.14509/31722

PIR 2025-6

Herriott, T.M., Wartes, M.A., Willingham, A.L., Gillis, R.J., and Qureshi, K.A., 2025, Geologic map of the Racetrack Basin area, central North Slope, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2025-6, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360. https://doi.org/10.14509/31723