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Saint Elias Mountain Range
By: Deborah, Mitch and Bridgit
Donjek Glacier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NfXQe4gThA
World Heritage Site
Kluane National Park Reserve, Yukon
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska
Covers 97,000 km2
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Tatshenshini-Alsek
Provincial Park, BC
Beaver Creek, YT
Chitina River
Haine’s Junction, YT
Mount Logan, YT
Bering Glacier, AK
Whitehorse, YT
Seward Glacier, AK
Mount Saint Elias, AK & YT
Malaspina Glacier, AK
Hubbard Glacier, AK
Mount Fairweather, AK
Major Mountains and Rivers
Alsek River
Mount Logan
Mount St. Elias
Mount Fiarweater
Mount Saint Elias
Mount Fairweather
Mount Churchill
Mount Bona
Topography
Mount Lucania
Mount Logan
Mount St. Elias
Mount Fairweather
Mount Logan
Elevation 5,959m
Highest Mountain in Canada
Mount St. Elias
Elevation 5,489
Second tallest mountain in Canada and United States
Lies on the boarder of the Yukon and Alaska
Mount Lucania and Mount Steele
Mount Fairweather
Mount Bona and Churchill
Churchill
Elevation 4,766
Bona
Elevation 5,005m
Climate:
Alsek River Valley
Hydrology
The Ice Fields
Glaciers
Malaspina Glacier
Hubbard Glacier
Kaskawulsh Glacier
Lowell Glacier
Fjords
Lakes
Wrangellia:
• Pennsylvanian-Jurassic
andesitic and basaltic flows
Alexander:
• Saint Elias and Craig subterranes
• Volcanic, sedimentary and plutonic
rocks and their metamorphic
equivalents
• Proterozoic to paleozoic
Yakutat microplate:
• Crustal fragments too buoyant
to subduct
The Alexander Terrane
Faults and Plate Tectonics
Geomorphology
Lowell Glacier outwash lake
Erosion
Erosion rate of 5.1 mm/year
Snowfall is focused on
South Western slopes
due to uplift:
Maximum Erosion
Cold based glacier
Minimum Erosion
Alsek River
Cirques
Kaskawulsh Glacier
Vegetation:
Upper Elevation:
Steep Rocky Slopes, Ice fields and Glaciers
Alpine Tundra
Coastal Coniferous Forests
Northern Coniferous Forests
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