B-4: Central Alaska from Fairbanks to Denali National Park

Leader: Phil Brease National Park Service, Jim Beget, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Duration: July 4-6, 2007
No. of Participants: Maximum: 28 People
( This Field Trip is Sold Out, accepting Stand-By Registrations. )
Cost: $425 (Pre-registration: $100) If there are questions, contact Field Trip leader.
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Description:
View Quaternary geology, rock glaciers, geomorphic evidence of paleoseismic and cryogenic structures, periglacial environments

Supplemental Materials:
Denali National Park Website
Denali National Park Map (2.5mb)
Denali National Park Aerial View (Google Maps)

Field Trip Itinerary:

Day 1, July 4 Fairbanks to Denali National Park by vans (120 miles); observe ice wedge casts,loess deposits and tephra marker beds, glacial terraces, morainal deposits, visit to the Denali National Park Visitors
Center and Hines Creek Fault.

Day 2, July 5 Denali National Park by bus; Eielson Bluffs with stops at Hines Creek - Savage River, glacial landforms, mass movements, aufeis, wetlands, hike to view Muldrow glacier terminus and surge evidence, ice cored moraines, and ice-waste topography; close views of moose, grizzly bears, Dall sheep.

Day 3, July 6 Vans from Healy and north to Stampede Road, push moraine feature (ice wedge casts and paleosols), thermokarst, permafrost monitoring, carbon cycling plots; return to Fairbanks.