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Author : French, H.M.; and Pollard, W.H.
Date : 1986.
Title : Ground-ice investigations, Klondike District, Yukon Territory
Publication : Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Issue : 23(4):
Page(s) : 550-560.



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Abstract

Massive bodies of ground ice, 2.0-4.0 m thick, are regularly exposed in small placer mining operations in the Klondike District, Yukon. At Mayes claim, Hunker Creek, the ice is underlain by 2.0-3.0 m of creek gravels and overlain by 10.0-15.0 m of organic-rich muck deposits. The crystallographic and petrographic characteristics of the ice and its stratigrtaphic occurrence suggest that the ice body either had a segregation origin or was a residual snowbank subsequently buried by muck deposits and recrystallized.

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