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Vol. 6, No. 14 Week of October 28, 2001
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Mapping the North Slope

Alan Bailey & Kay Cashman

Surprisingly, for an area as geologically significant as Alaska’s North Slope, the only readily available, color, geologic rendition of the entire area is a statewide map made in the 1970s by the U.S. Geological Survey at a scale of 1 inch per 40 miles. Although there are more recent and precise map....

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Mapping has a long history

The older mapping

USGS is digitizing maps


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