This file contains the following photographs in both print photograph and negative format:
Slims River delta
Date: August 11, 2003
(location not recorded)
Print roll 5, #1-3 (Corresponding slides: Slides roll 3, #15-14)
Grizzly bear
Date: August 12, 2003
(beside Cultus Bay Rd.; location not recorded)
Print roll 5, #6-7
Y03-08 (Cultus Bay Rd. – at top of switchbacks)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 3’ 43.1” N, 138° 21’ 4.0” W, 833.8 m asl (± 5.1 m)
Site Description: good exposure of loess (35 cm) with Slims Soil over glaciofluvial terrace – pinches out downslope [note: this site was sampled because of development of buried paleosol, and was not part of biological crust study by Marsh et al. (2006)]
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-08-01 - 45-48 cm - Ahkb (7.5YR 3/3 d; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-08-02 - 48-56 cm - Bmkb (7.5YR 4/3 d; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-08-03 - 56-70 cm - Ccab (2.5Y 5/2 d; strongly effervescent)
- (not sampled) - 70 cm+ - IICca (glaciofluvial; strongly effervescent)
- Intact sample: 56-36 cm - depth (including Slims Soil)
Print roll 5, #8-10, 17-18 (Corresponding slides: Slides roll 3, #13-11, 5-4)
Y03-09 (cliff top on E. shore of Kluane L. at Christmas Bay)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 4’ 0.0” N, 138° 22’ 35.3” W, 828.3 m asl (± 7.3 m)
Site Description: ~ 60 cm loess over glaciofluvial gravels
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-09-01 - Nostoc crust
- Y03-09-02 - Tortula ruralis – Cetraria crust
- Y03-09-03 - 0-14 cm - ACk (10YR 3\2 d)
- Y03-09-04 - 14-16 cm - Ahkb1 (10YR 2/2 d)
- Y03-09-05 - 16-18 cm - Ck1 (10YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-06 - 18-20 cm - Ahkb2 (10YR 3/2 d; discontinuous)
- Y03-09-07 - 20-27 cm - Bmkb1 (10YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-08 - 27-33 cm - Bmkb2 (7.5YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-09 - 33-46 cm - Bmkb3 (10YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-10 - 46-55 cm - Ck2 (2.5Y 5/3 d)
- (not sampled) - 55-60 cm+ - IICk (glaciofluvial gravels)
Print roll 5, #11-15 (Corresponding slides: Slide roll 3, #10-6)
Y03-10 (shore bluff N. of Silver City)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 2’ 55.0” N, 138° 23’ 17.2” W, 806.7 m asl (± 7.3 m)
Site Description: 70% slope, SW aspect; vegetation: Elymus, Carex, Artemisia, Erigeron
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-10-01 - Crust
- Y03-10-02 - 0-18 cm - ACk (10YR 4/2 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-10-03 - 18-25 cm - Ahkb(?) (10YR 4/2 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-10-04 - 25-40 cm - Ck (2.5Y 5/2.5 m; strongly effervescent)
- (not sampled) - 40 cm+ - IICk (glaciofluvial gravels; strongly effervescent)
Print roll 5, #19-22 (Corresponding slides: Slide roll 3, #3-1)
Silver City ghost town (location not recorded)
Date: August 12, 2003
Print roll 5, #23-24
Y03-11 (Silver City road section)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 2’ 3.6” N, 138° 22’ 48.8” W, 806.7 m asl (± 8.7 m)
Site Description: roadcut through SW-facing hill exposes loess over glaciofluvial gravel, with 4 paleosols in colluviated loess
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-11-01 - 0-18 cm - ACk (fresh loess)
- Y03-11-02 - 18-47 cm - Soil 1 – Bmk
- Y03-11-03 - 47-100 cm - Loess
- Y03-11-04 - 100-110 cm - Soil 2 – includes charcoal
- Y03-11-05 - 110-160 cm - Loess with secondary carbonate in root channel
- Y03-11-06 - 160-170 cm - Soil 3 – Ahk with charcoal
- Y03-11-07 - 160-170 cm - Soil 3 – Bmk
- Y03-11-08 - 170-198 cm - Loess with secondary carbonate in root channel
- Y03-11-09 - 198-202 cm - Soil 4 – Ahk – laterally continuous for ~ 1.5 m
- Y03-11-10 - 202-230 cm - Loess with secondary carbonates in roots
- Y03-11-11 - 230-255 cm - Soil 5 – Ahk – includes abundant charcoal bands
- Y03-11-12 - 230-255 cm - Soil 5 – Bmk – infilled squirrel burrows immediately below
- Y03-11-13 - 255-300 cm+ - Loess
Additional notes on modern soil & paleosols:
Soil 1 - consists of Bmk horizon material with 2 distinct colours: 7.5YR 4/3 d & 10YR 4/3 d
- loess between Soils 1 & 3 is sandier
Soil 2 - 90% Ahk material, 2-10 cm thick
- Ahk – 10YR 3/2 d
- Bmk – 7.5YR 4/2 d
- less abundant carbonate than in paleosols & loess below
Soil 3 - most of exposure has Ahk (2-5 cm thick) over Bmk (4-10 cm thick), with carbonates as for Soil 5
Soil 4 - mostly Ahk (10YR 3/2 d) material 2-8 cm thick, some Bmk (10YR 4/2 d) < 2 cm thick, with carbonates as for Soil 5
Soil 5 - complex intermixing of Ahk & Bmk material, charcoal most abundant in Ahk
- individual colour bands 2-10 cm thick
- overall dip of horizons (10° to W) is parallel to surface
- similar size & density of secondary carbonates as in loess above & below; associated with root channels, < 5 mm diameter, covering ~ 5% of surface
Print roll 5, #26-30 (Corresponding slides: Slide roll 4, #36-32)
Slide roll contains the following photographs:
Y03-06
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 4’ 1.5” N, 138° 21’ 57.4” W, 825.3 m asl (± 9.5 m)
Site Description: top of slope, E aspect
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-06-01 - Crust
- Y03-06-02 - 0-6 cm - Ahk (10YR 3/2 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-06-03 - 6-14 cm - Bmk (2.5Y 3/3 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-06-04 - 14 cm+ - IICk (strongly effervescent)
Slide roll 3 #36-35 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 4, #1-2)
Y03-07 (peninsula near Kluane visitor centre, Sheep Mt.)
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 1’ 42.8” N, 138° 29’ 36.2” W, 786.7 m asl (± 5.7 m)
Site Description:
- recent (?) landslide with loess accumulation in pockets, thinner on boulder surfaces, dominated by dark cyanobacteria crusts
- limited loess accumulation due to exposure of site
- crust is calcareous at surface
Sample Depths & Descriptions: - Y03-07-01 - Crust
- Y03-07-02 - 0-6 cm - Ck
- Y03-07-03 - 6-9 cm - Ahkb
- Y03-07-03 - 9 cm+ - Rock
Slide roll 3 #34-30 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 4, #3-10)
Lower Slims River (lookout knoll at parking lot N of visitor centre)
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 60° 59’ 56.4” N, 138° 33’ 36.4” W, 844.8 m asl (± 7.3 m)
Site Description: some fire disturbance, but lower slopes have more intact crusts on loess (calcareous to surface)
Slide roll 3 #29-26 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 4, #11-17)
Lower Slims R (lowest bench below lookout knoll)
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 60° 59’ 51.8” N, 138° 33’ 36.2” W, 814.3 m asl (± 7.9 m)
Site Description: not burned; good intact crust; vegetation: A. frigida, Calamogrostis purpurea, Erigeron caespitosus, Linnaea, Carex filifolia (sparse cover ~ 50%)
Slide roll 3, #25-23 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 4, #18-20)
Slims Soil
(Holocene paleosol with well-developed B horizon under Neoglacial calcareous loess – location not recorded, but likely from roadcut exposure along main Slims R trail)
Slides roll 3, #22 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 4, #21)
Lower end of Sheep Creek
Date: August 11, 2003
Misc. views of grassland vegetation and landscape (locations not recorded)
Slides roll 3, #21-18 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 4, #26-33)
Overlook at lower end of Sheep Creek canyon
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 60° 59’ 42.2” N, 138° 34’ 38.1” W, 878.0 m asl (± 9.5 m)
Site Description: heavy use by sheep (abundant droppings) but still has ~ 50% crust coverage
Slides roll 3, #17-16 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 4, #34-35)
Slims River delta
Date: August 11, 2003
(location not recorded)
Slides roll 3, #15-14: salt efflorescences (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 5, #1-3)
Y03-08 (Cultus Bay Rd. – at top of switchbacks)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 3’ 43.1” N, 138° 21’ 4.0” W, 833.8 m asl (± 5.1 m)
Site Description: good exposure of loess (35 cm) with Slims Soil over glaciofluvial terrace – pinches out downslope [note: this site was sampled because of development of buried paleosol, and was not part of biological crust study by Marsh et al. (2006)]
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-08-01 - 45-48 cm - Ahkb (7.5YR 3/3 d; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-08-02 - 48-56 cm - Bmkb (7.5YR 4/3 d; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-08-03 - 56-70 cm - Ccab (2.5Y 5/2 d; strongly effervescent)
- (not sampled) - 70 cm+ - IICca (glaciofluvial; strongly effervescent)
- Intact sample: 56-36 cm - depth (including Slims Soil)
Slides roll 3, #13-11, 5-4 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 5, #8-10, 17-18)
Y03-09 (cliff top on E. shore of Kluane L. at Christmas Bay)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 4’ 0.0” N, 138° 22’ 35.3” W, 828.3 m asl (± 7.3 m)
Site Description: ~ 60 cm loess over glaciofluvial gravels
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-09-01 - Nostoc crust
- Y03-09-02 - Tortula ruralis – Cetraria crust
- Y03-09-03 - 0-14 cm - ACk (10YR 3\2 d)
- Y03-09-04 - 14-16 cm - Ahkb1 (10YR 2/2 d)
- Y03-09-05 - 16-18 cm - Ck1 (10YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-06 - 18-20 cm - Ahkb2 (10YR 3/2 d; discontinuous)
- Y03-09-07 - 20-27 cm - Bmkb1 (10YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-08 - 27-33 cm - Bmkb2 (7.5YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-09 - 33-46 cm - Bmkb3 (10YR 4/3 d)
- Y03-09-10 - 46-55 cm - Ck2 (2.5Y 5/3 d)
- (not sampled) - 55-60 cm+ - IICk (glaciofluvial gravels)
Slide roll 3, #10-6 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 5, #11-15)
Y03-10 (shore bluff N. of Silver City)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 2’ 55.0” N, 138° 23’ 17.2” W, 806.7 m asl (± 7.3 m)
Site Description: 70% slope, SW aspect; vegetation: Elymus, Carex, Artemisia, Erigeron
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-10-01 - Crust
- Y03-10-02 - 0-18 cm - ACk (10YR 4/2 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-10-03 - 18-25 cm - Ahkb(?) (10YR 4/2 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-10-04 - 25-40 cm - Ck (2.5Y 5/2.5 m; strongly effervescent)
- (not sampled) - 40 cm+ - IICk (glaciofluvial gravels; strongly effervescent)
Slide roll 3, #3-1 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 5, #19-22)
File consists of Kluane Lake photographs from 2003 in digital format.
Slide roll contains the following photographs:
Cultus Bay / Rat Lake
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 09’ 57.1” N, 138° 25’ 25.5” W, 806 m asl (± 6.2 m)
Slides #17-15: Rat Lake area (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 3, #13A-16A)
Slides #14-13: Collema & Psora crusts on exposed ridge on coarser substrate where loess has blown off (Corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 3, #17A-19A)
Y03-03 (Rat Lake)
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 10’ 3.5” N, 138° 25’ 37.2” W, 798.3 m asl (± 13.0 m)
Site Description: SW aspect, 45% slope; vegetation: Carex filifolia, A. frigida, Elymus trachycaulis
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-03-01 - Crust
- Y03-03-02 - 0-9 cm - Ahk (10YR 4/2 m; weak-moderate, fine granular)
- Y03-03-03 - 9-53 cm+ - Ck (2.5Y 6/3 m; massive)
Slides #12-10 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 3, #20A-22A)
Y03-04 (Rat Lake)
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 10’ 10.5” N, 138° 26’ 3.7” W, 800.2 m asl (± 8.7 m)
Site Description: S aspect, 40% slope; vegetation: Elymus, Artemisia, flax, Penstemon, Linum lewisii
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-04-01 - Crust
- Y03-04-02 - 0-6 cm - Ck (strongly effervescent)
- Y03-04-03 - 6-16 cm - Ahkb
- Y03-04-04 -16-75 cm+ - Ck (strongly effervescent; includes Bmk pockets)
Slides #9-7 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 3, #25A-28A)
Y03-05 (SE of Rat Lake)
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 9’ 43.2” N, 138° 25’ 34.8” W, 811.5 m asl (± 8.9 m)
Site Description: upper slope / crest; recent local sandy eolian veneer over older loess; vegetation: Carex, Elymus, Poa, Erigeron
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-05-01 - Crust
- Y03-05-02 - 0-5 cm - Ahk
- Y03-05-03 - 5-19 cm - Ck1
- Y03-05-04 - 19-31 cm - Ahkb (siltier)
- Y03-05-05 - 31-50 cm+ - Ck2
Slides #6-1 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 3, #34A-#E)
Slide roll contains the following photographs:
Y03-11 (Silver City road section)
Date: August 12, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 2’ 3.6” N, 138° 22’ 48.8” W, 806.7 m asl (± 8.7 m)
Site Description: roadcut through SW-facing hill exposes loess over glaciofluvial gravel, with 4 paleosols in colluviated loess
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-11-01 - 0-18 cm - ACk (fresh loess)
- Y03-11-02 - 18-47 cm - Soil 1 – Bmk
- Y03-11-03 - 47-100 cm - Loess
- Y03-11-04 - 100-110 cm - Soil 2 – includes charcoal
- Y03-11-05 - 110-160 cm - Loess with secondary carbonate in root channel
- Y03-11-06 - 160-170 cm - Soil 3 – Ahk with charcoal
- Y03-11-07 - 160-170 cm - Soil 3 – Bmk
- Y03-11-08 - 170-198 cm - Loess with secondary carbonate in root channel
- Y03-11-09 - 198-202 cm - Soil 4 – Ahk – laterally continuous for ~ 1.5 m
- Y03-11-10 - 202-230 cm - Loess with secondary carbonates in roots
- Y03-11-11 - 230-255 cm - Soil 5 – Ahk – includes abundant charcoal bands
- Y03-11-12 - 230-255 cm - Soil 5 – Bmk – infilled squirrel burrows immediately below
- Y03-11-13 - 255-300 cm+ - Loess
Additional notes on modern soil & paleosols:
Soil 1 - consists of Bmk horizon material with 2 distinct colours: 7.5YR 4/3 d & 10YR 4/3 d
- loess between Soils 1 & 3 is sandier
Soil 2 - 90% Ahk material, 2-10 cm thick
- Ahk – 10YR 3/2 d
- Bmk – 7.5YR 4/2 d
- less abundant carbonate than in paleosols & loess below
Soil 3 - most of exposure has Ahk (2-5 cm thick) over Bmk (4-10 cm thick), with carbonates as for Soil 5
Soil 4 - mostly Ahk (10YR 3/2 d) material 2-8 cm thick, some Bmk (10YR 4/2 d) < 2 cm thick, with carbonates as for Soil 5
Soil 5 - complex intermixing of Ahk & Bmk material, charcoal most abundant in Ahk
- individual colour bands 2-10 cm thick
- overall dip of horizons (10° to W) is parallel to surface
- similar size & density of secondary carbonates as in loess above & below; associated with root channels, < 5 mm diameter, covering ~ 5% of surface
Slide roll 4, #36-32 (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 5, #26-30)
Y03-12 (island off Slims River delta)
Date: August 13, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 1’ 9.1” N, 138° 29’ 27.9” W, 819 m asl (± 6.0 m)
Site Description: good grassland development on undulating aeolian veneer over bedrock, SW aspect; vegetation: A. frigida, C. purpurescens, P. glauca, Erigeron, Plantago, Oxytropis; good crust cover, mossy on more northerly aspects
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-12-01 - Crust
- Y03-12-02 - 0-10 cm - ACk
Slide roll 4, #31-10 (miscellaneous site views of Y03-12 & Slims R delta island)
This file contains the following photographs in both print photograph and negative format:
Slims River delta
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 00’ 16.5” N, 138° 30’ 45.6” W, 790 m asl (± 11.0 m)
Print roll 3, #5A-6A: delta surface with salt efflorescences (Deschampsia caespitosa, Puchinella nuttalli, Aster siberica, Triglauca palustre); Juncus & Ranunculus on more active surface near river.
7A-9A: moister Deschampsia site, polygonal cracking patterns (W side of highway)
10A-12A: closeups of efflorescences
Cultus Bay / Rat Lake
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 09’ 57.1” N, 138° 25’ 25.5” W, 806 m asl (± 6.2 m)
Slides #17-15: Rat Lake area (corresponding prints and negatives: Print roll 3, #13A-16A)
Print roll 3, #17A-19A: Collema & Psora crusts on exposed ridge on coarser substrate where loess has blown off (Corresponding slides: Slide Roll 2 #14-13)
Y03-03 (Rat Lake)
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 10’ 3.5” N, 138° 25’ 37.2” W, 798.3 m asl (± 13.0 m)
Site Description: SW aspect, 45% slope; vegetation: Carex filifolia, A. frigida, Elymus trachycaulis
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-03-01 - Crust
- Y03-03-02 - 0-9 cm - Ahk (10YR 4/2 m; weak-moderate, fine granular)
- Y03-03-03 - 9-53 cm+ - Ck (2.5Y 6/3 m; massive)
Print roll 3, #20A-22A (Corresponding slides: Slide Roll 2: #12-10)
Y03-04 (Rat Lake)
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 10’ 10.5” N, 138° 26’ 3.7” W, 800.2 m asl (± 8.7 m)
Site Description: S aspect, 40% slope; vegetation: Elymus, Artemisia, flax, Penstemon, Linum lewisii
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-04-01 - Crust
- Y03-04-02 - 0-6 cm - Ck (strongly effervescent)
- Y03-04-03 - 6-16 cm - Ahkb
- Y03-04-04 -16-75 cm+ - Ck (strongly effervescent; includes Bmk pockets)
Print roll 3, #25A-28A (Corresponding Slides: Slide Roll 2: #9-7)
Y03-05 (SE of Rat Lake)
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 9’ 43.2” N, 138° 25’ 34.8” W, 811.5 m asl (± 8.9 m)
Site Description: upper slope / crest; recent local sandy eolian veneer over older loess; vegetation: Carex, Elymus, Poa, Erigeron
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-05-01 - Crust
- Y03-05-02 - 0-5 cm - Ahk
- Y03-05-03 - 5-19 cm - Ck1
- Y03-05-04 - 19-31 cm - Ahkb (siltier)
- Y03-05-05 - 31-50 cm+ - Ck2
Print roll 3, #34A-#E (Corresponding Slides: Slide Roll 2: Slides #6-1)
This file contains the following photographs in both print photograph and negative format:
Y03-06
Date: August 10, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 4’ 1.5” N, 138° 21’ 57.4” W, 825.3 m asl (± 9.5 m)
Site Description: top of slope, E aspect
Sample Depths & Descriptions:
- Y03-06-01 - Crust
- Y03-06-02 - 0-6 cm - Ahk (10YR 3/2 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-06-03 - 6-14 cm - Bmk (2.5Y 3/3 m; strongly effervescent)
- Y03-06-04 - 14 cm+ - IICk (strongly effervescent)
Print roll 4, #1-2 (Corresponding slides: Slide roll 3 #36-35)
Y03-07 (peninsula near Kluane visitor centre, Sheep Mt.)
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 61° 1’ 42.8” N, 138° 29’ 36.2” W, 786.7 m asl (± 5.7 m)
Site Description:
- recent (?) landslide with loess accumulation in pockets, thinner on boulder surfaces, dominated by dark cyanobacteria crusts
- limited loess accumulation due to exposure of site
- crust is calcareous at surface
Sample Depths & Descriptions: - Y03-07-01 - Crust
- Y03-07-02 - 0-6 cm - Ck
- Y03-07-03 - 6-9 cm - Ahkb
- Y03-07-03 - 9 cm+ - Rock
Print roll 4, #3-10 (Corresponding slides: Slide roll 3 #34-30)
Lower Slims River (lookout knoll at parking lot N of visitor centre)
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 60° 59’ 56.4” N, 138° 33’ 36.4” W, 844.8 m asl (± 7.3 m)
Site Description: some fire disturbance, but lower slopes have more intact crusts on loess (calcareous to surface)
Print roll 4, #11-17 (Corresponding slides: Slide roll 3 #29-26)
Lower Slims R (lowest bench below lookout knoll)
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 60° 59’ 51.8” N, 138° 33’ 36.2” W, 814.3 m asl (± 7.9 m)
Site Description: not burned; good intact crust; vegetation: A. frigida, Calamogrostis purpurea, Erigeron caespitosus, Linnaea, Carex filifolia (sparse cover ~ 50%)
Print roll 4, #18-20 (Corresponding slides: Slide roll 3, #25-23)
Slims Soil
(Holocene paleosol with well-developed B horizon under Neoglacial calcareous loess – location not recorded, but likely from roadcut exposure along main Slims R trail)
Print roll 4, #21 (Corresponding slides: Slides roll 3, #22)
S-facing opening above main trail
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 60° 59’ 53.1” N, 138° 34’ 9.0” W, 822.9 m asl (± 15.0 m)
Site Description:
- Nostoc crust, also with Collema
- calcareous to surface
- site has later successional stage, with Arctostaphylos & Juniperus starting to move in
Print roll 4, # 22-25
Lower end of Sheep Creek
Date: August 11, 2003
Misc. views of grassland vegetation and landscape (locations not recorded)
Print roll 4, #26-33 (Corresponding slides: Slides roll 3, #21-18)
Overlook at lower end of Sheep Creek canyon
Date: August 11, 2003
Location Coordinates: 60° 59’ 42.2” N, 138° 34’ 38.1” W, 878.0 m asl (± 9.5 m)
Site Description: heavy use by sheep (abundant droppings) but still has ~ 50% crust coverage
Print roll 4, #34-35 (Corresponding slides: Slides roll 3, #17-16)
Downvalley view toward Slims R delta, near Sheep Creek (?)
Date: August 11, 2003
(location not recorded)
Print roll 4, #36-E
This file contains the following photographs in both print photograph and negative format:
Thorsen Bay
Print roll 11, #01-2A
Corresponding slides: slide roll 6, #12-10
Y04-19 (27.5 km on Cultus Bay Rd., near Thorsen Bay)
Date: July 22, 2004
Location Coordinates: 61º 12’ 3.0” N, 138º 28’ 58.3’ W, 819 m asl (± 18.9 m)
Site Description: Roadcut at base of 30º, E-facing slope. Colluviated loess overlies sandy glaciofluvial at 120 cm. Prominent paleosol with “cumulic” B horizon at 80-120 cm, with strong effervescence throughout exposure.
Print roll 11, #3A-5A (profile), #6A-10A (landscape)
Corresponding slides: slide roll 6, #9-7 (profile), #6-1 (landscape)
Sample Depths & Descriptions: Y04-19-01 – charcoal at 95 cm
Roadcut opposite ~ 30 m to NE on grassy S aspect (10° slope) with 15-20 cm of calcareous loess and sand over 2 cm White River ash; strongly effervescent throughout.
Print roll 11, #11A-12A (profile)
Corresponding slides: slide roll 7, #36-35 (profile)
Thorsen Bay landscape
Print roll 11, #13A-16A
Corresponding slides: Slide roll 7, #34-32
Y04-20B
Date: July 22, 2004
Location Coordinates: 61º 10’ 16.5” N, 138º 26’ 18.7’ W, 797.5 m asl (± 5.9 m)
Site Description: wind-eroded Slims soil on glaciolacustrine with contorted bedding (exposed on blown-out roadcut); calcareous to surface; White R ash pockets at 10-20 cm; S aspect, 5° slope.
Print roll 11, #17A-21A
Corresponding slides: Slide roll 7, #31-26
Y04-22
Date: July 22, 2004
Location Coordinates: 61º 9’ 39.24” N, 138º 25’ 7.8’ W, 790.6 m asl (± 6.4 m)
Site Description: toe of 30° slope, W aspect (grassy slope with poplar at toe); 1.0-1.2 of colluviated loess over gravelly glaciofluvial with buried soil at 70-80 cm
Print roll 11, #22A-24A
Corresponding slides: Slide roll 7, #25-24
This PDF contains site location data and annotated soil profile photographs for soil charcoal samples at the Silver City section (site Y03-11).
This file contains the following photographs in both print photograph and negative format:
Kluane Lake (S. shore, near Kluane Lake Research Station)
Print roll 10, # 34-36