Plunge Creek

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Plunge Creek is a stream in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in the United States. It is a tributary of Upikchak Creek. [1]

North Slope Borough, Alaska Borough in the United States

North Slope Borough, established in 1972, is an Alaskan borough bounded on the south by the Brooks Range and located largely in the North Slope region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost formal community on the North American continent. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,430. The borough seat is Utqiagvik. The mayor is Harry K. Brower, Jr., first elected in a special election in July 2016 after recall of the previous mayor by an April 2016 election.

Plunge Creek was so named from a nearby "plunging anticline". [2]

Anticline geological term

In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core. A typical anticline is convex up in which the hinge or crest is the location where the curvature is greatest, and the limbs are the sides of the fold that dip away from the hinge. Anticlines can be recognized and differentiated from antiforms by a sequence of rock layers that become progressively older toward the center of the fold. Therefore, if age relationships between various rock strata are unknown, the term antiform should be used.

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plunge Creek
  2. Geological Survey (U.S.) (1960). Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 54.

Coordinates: 68°44′00″N161°23′00″W / 68.73333°N 161.38333°W / 68.73333; -161.38333

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