Arctic Coastal Plain surficial geology study

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1621

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Arctic Coastal Plain

• Status:

  Complete

• Description:

  Project record representing Stuart Rawlinson's PhD dissertation. DGGS provided field, laboratory, and office support for this study between 1981 and 1987, and office support in 1989. DGGS participants: Richard Reger, Rodney Combellick, Duncan Hickmott, Steven Hardy, Jeffery Ewing, and Terry Owen. External staff: L. David Carter (USGS) and David Hopkins (UAF). Some funding support provided by the USGS COGEOMAP program. Field work completed 1981-1985, boreholes were drilled 1985, 678(?) samples collected.

• Project Date(s):

  1981 - 1990

• Primary Contact:

  Hubbard, Trent D.

• DGGS section:

  Hydrology and Surficial Geology

• Project Participants:

• Stations/Samples:

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Publications

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Giesche, A.M. and others, 2024

Giesche, A.M., Rawlinson, S.E., Labay, K.A., Shew, N.B., Pongratz, A.L., and Wilson, F.H., 2024, Digitized legacy maps of surficial geology and morphology of central Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release.

RI 93-1

Rawlinson, S.E., 1993, Surficial geology and morphology of the Alaskan central Arctic Coastal Plain: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 93-1, 172 p., 6 sheets, scale 1:63,360. https://doi.org/10.14509/2484

PDF 90-27

Rawlinson, S.E., 1990, Surficial geology and morphology of the Alaskan central Arctic Coastal Plain: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 90-27, 326 p., 6 sheets, scale 1:63,360. https://doi.org/10.14509/1461