布鲁克斯岭

布鲁克斯岭
Brooks Range
布魯克斯嶺一景，位於加尔布雷思湖（英语：Galbraith Lake）附近
最高点
山峰伊斯托山（英语：Mount Isto）
海拔8,976英尺（2,736米）
坐标69°12′09″N 143°48′08″W / 69.20250°N 143.80222°W / 69.20250; -143.80222 
规模
长度700英里（1,100公里）
宽度150英里（240公里）
地理
国家美國和加拿大
地区阿拉斯加州和育空地區
山脉坐标68°12′N 152°15′W / 68.200°N 152.250°W / 68.200; -152.250
地质
造山运动拉臘米造山運動（英语：Laramide orogeny）
岩石年代白垩纪

布鲁克斯岭（英語：Brooks Range）[1]是美国阿拉斯加北部和加拿大育空地区的一個山脉，長度為700英里（1,100公里），最高海拔為8,976英尺（2,736米），該山脈於约1.26亿年前形成。

該山脈大部分為无人區，世界最大的锌矿紅狗礦（英语：Red Dog mine）坐落在布鲁克斯岭西端。

1925年，美國地名委員會以1903年至1924年在美国地质调查局任職的首席地质学家阿尔弗雷德·赫尔斯·布鲁克斯（英语：Alfred Hulse Brooks）的名字命名該山脈。

備註

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

更多阅读

  • 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国际标准书号 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.