布魯克斯嶺

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布魯克斯嶺
Brooks Range
布魯克斯嶺一景,位於加爾布雷思湖英語Galbraith Lake附近
最高點
山峰伊斯托山英語Mount Isto
海拔8,976英尺(2,736米)
座標69°12′09″N 143°48′08″W / 69.20250°N 143.80222°W / 69.20250; -143.80222
規模
長度700英里(1,100公里)
寬度150英里(240公里)
地理
國家美國加拿大
地區阿拉斯加州育空地區
距離坐標68°12′N 152°15′W / 68.200°N 152.250°W / 68.200; -152.250座標68°12′N 152°15′W / 68.200°N 152.250°W / 68.200; -152.250
地質
造山運動拉臘米造山運動英語Laramide orogeny
岩石年代白堊紀

布魯克斯嶺(英語:Brooks Range[1]美國阿拉斯加北部和加拿大育空地區的一個山脈,長度為700英里(1,100公里),最高海拔為8,976英尺(2,736米),該山脈於約1.26億年前形成。

該山脈大部分為無人區,世界最大的鋅礦紅狗礦英語Red Dog mine坐落在布魯克斯嶺西端。

1925年,美國地名委員會以1903年至1924年在美國地質調查局任職的首席地質學家阿爾弗雷德·赫爾斯·布魯克斯英語Alfred Hulse Brooks的名字命名該山脈。

備註

  1. ^ GNIS Account Login. geonames.usgs.gov. [23 April 2018]. 

更多閱讀

  • Allan, C. (2013). Arctic citadel : a history of exploration in the Brooks Range region of Northern Alaska. Washington, D.C,: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
  • Witmer, Dennis "Far to the North: Photographs from the Brooks Range" Far to the North Press (2008) ISBN 0-9771028-0-7
  • Kauffmann, John M. "Alaska's Brooks Range: The Ultimate Mountains" (Second Edition) Mountaineers Books (2005) ISBN 1-59485-008-9
  • Brown, William E. "History of the Central Brooks Range: Gaunt Beauty, Tenuous Life" University of Alaska Press (2007) ISBN 1-60223-009-9
  • Cooper, David "Brooks Range Passage" Mountaineers Books (1983) ISBN 0-89886-061-X
  • Dover, J.H., I.L. Tailleur, and J.A. Dumoulin. (2004). Geologic and fossil locality maps of the west-central part of the Howard Pass quadrangle and part of the adjacent Misheguk Mountain quadrangle, Western Brooks Range, Alaska [Miscellaneous Field Studies; Map MF-2413]. Reston, Va.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Krumhardt, A.P., A.G. Harris, and K.F. Watts. (1996). Lithostratigraphy, microlithofacies, and conodont biostratigraphy and biofacies of the Wahoo Limestone (Carboniferous), eastern Sadlerochit Mountains, northeast Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1568. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Marshall, R. (1970). Alaska wilderness; exploring the Central Brooks Range 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24498-2國際標準書號 Special:BookSources/0-520-24498-2
  • Mayfield, C.F. et al. (1984). Reconnaissance geologic map of southeastern Misheguk Mountain quadrangle, Alaska [Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1503]. Reston, Va.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Morin, R.L. (1997). Gravity and magnetic maps of part of the Drenchwater Creek stratiform zinc-lead-silver deposit, Howard Pass quadrangle, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska [Open-file report 97-705]. Menlo Park, CA: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Morin, R.L. (1997). Gravity models of Abby Creek and Bion barite deposits, Howard Pass quadrangle, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska [U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 97-704]. Menlo Park, CA: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Mull, C.G. et al. (1994). Geologic map of the Killik River quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska [U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 94-679]. Reston, Va: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Nelson, P.H. et al. (2006). Potential tight gas resources in a frontier province, Jurassic through Tertiary strata beneath the Brooks Range foothills, Arctic Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2006–1172. Reston, VA: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
  • U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. (2003). The natural dispersal of metals to the environment in the Wulik River-Ikalukrok Creek area, western Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 107–03. Reston, VA: author.
  • U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. (1995). Natural environmental effects of silver-lead-zinc deposits in the Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 092–95. Reston, VA: author.