An Unusual Case of Stream Piracy

Authors

Frank Reckendorf, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Keith M. Hussey, Iowa State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

An unusual case of stream piracy took place in the recent past through the Franklin Bluffs on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. The Sagavanirktok River and Hawk Creek occupied opposite positions on the sides of a ridge, with the result of a rapid lowering of the divide between them. Loss of cementation (by thaw) of the gravels in the formation separating them continued until the higher flowing Hawk Creek burst through the ice-free gravels of the ridge to join the Sagavanirktok River about one-half mile upstream from its former junction.

Publication Date

1962

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

69

Issue

1

First Page

322

Last Page

326

Copyright

©1962 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Reckendorf, Frank and Hussey, Keith M. (1962) "An Unusual Case of Stream Piracy," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 69(1), 322-326.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol69/iss1/52