Map of the Toolik Lake research area soil carbon. The map encloses a 20 km^2 area surrounding Toolik Lake that stretches from the Dalton Highway on the east to Jade Mountain on the west. It includes the Toolik Field Station, the old Toolik Lake pipeline construction camp gravel pad and airstrip on the northeast side of the lake, and the primary terrestrial research areas on the south, west and east sides of the lake, as well as several smaller research lakes in the immediate vicinity of Toollik Lake. The area contains surfaces with irregular topography that were glaciated during the Late Pleistocene. The soil carbon content in the Toolik Lake area was reported in ranges from 45 kg C/m^2. The attribute table contains data for vegetation, surficial geomorphology, surficial geology, glacial geology, and water.
Back to: Toolik Lake Area Geobotanical
Go to Website Link :: Toolik Arctic Geobotanical Atlas below for details on legend units, photos of map units and plant species, glossary, bibliography and links to ground data.
Map Themes: Glacial geology, Percent Water, Soil carbon, Surficial geology, Surficial Geomorphology, Vegetation
References
Walker, D.A., Maier, H.A. 2008. Vegetation in the Vicinity of the Toolik Lake Field Station, Alaska. Biological Papers of the University of Alaska, Institute of Arctic Biology, No. 28.
