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Author : Brandon, L.V.
Date : 1965.
Title : Groundwater hydrology and water supply in the District of Mackenzie, Yukon Territory, and adjoining parts of British Columbia.
Publication : Geological Survey of Canada, Paper
Issue : 64-39.
Page(s) : 103 p.
Abstract
Ground water is effluent in regions of discontinuous permafrost in the Interior Plains and Cordillera, but flow in the Precambrian Shield is considered to be negligible. Where no piezometric data from borings is available, evidences of its movement are provided by winter base-flow records, chemical analyses of river waters, the presence of springs, and local halophytic flora. Quantitative information on its contribution to the Upper Liard basin is obtained from the relation between discharge and specific conductance. Several thermal springs in the Cordillera are heated by deep circulation of meteoric waters, which may also contribute heat to sulfur springs. Ground water is available for domestic and community supplies in glaciated valleys of the Cordillera and in alluvium in other regions. Whitehorse and Dawson are the largest towns with well fields.
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