| Title | An inventory of borrow pits and pond development between 1961 to 2005, Highway 3, Yellowknife region, Northwest Territories |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Wolfe, S A ;
Delaney, S; Duchesne, C |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6948, 2011, 42 pages; 1 CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.4095/289032  Open Access |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | CD-ROM; on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; kml; txt; doc; shp; xml; dbf; emf; xls |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 85K/16; 85J/07; 85J/10; 85J/11; 85J/13 |
| Area | Yellowknife; Behchoko; Great Slave Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -116.5000 -114.0000 63.0000 62.3333 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; engineering geology; environmental geology; Nature and Environment; pits; surface waters; construction capability; construction suitabilities; permafrost; freezing
ground; ground ice; ground temperatures; terrain sensitivity; terrain types; terrain analysis; arctic geology; environmental impacts; environmental studies |
| Illustrations | tables; aerial photographs; location maps; histograms; graphs |
| Program | Climate Change Geoscience |
| Released | 2011 08 09 |
| Abstract | This open file provides an inventory of historical borrow pit locations and subsequent pond development formed between 1961 and 2005 along the highway corridor between Behchoko and Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories. The inventory and database were prepared to better understand potential relationships between highway performance and past terrain disturbance that could affect permafrost and geotechnical properties of sediments. The
accompanying shapefile format data can be used in a GIS to place areas of borrow pits and recent ponds onto digital maps for referencing. In addition, files provided in KML format can also be used to locate these areas in Google Earth. The primary
purpose of this inventory is to approximate the location and size of historical borrow pits and pond development in relation to highway infrastructure, as a basis for present and future reference to highway performance in this permafrost-affected
terrain. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 289032 |
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