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  Alaska, Tanana River Seite 1
bis zur Siedlung Tanana kurz hinter der Mündung in den Yukon - ist 100 bzw.
In Fairbanks setzen wir mit unseren Faltbooten in den klaren Chena River ein.
Nach etwa 7 km erreichten wir den Tanana River, der mit etwa 5-7 Stundenkilometern vergleichsweise mächtig zog.
www.walter-steinberg.de /Tanana/Tanana.htm   (369 words)

  
  Alaska Rivers
The upper river is formed by several smaller rivers (forks) and the lower river is slower and deeper moving.
The river levels are influenced by the glacial melt in the nearby mountains.
The 2,300 mile-long Yukon River is the mother river to the Tanana River and Chena Rivers.
www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/awe/noyes/rivers.html   (551 words)

  
  Ice Jam Database Summary Listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Buckland River at Buckland, AK 19050203 65-59-00 161-08-00 Buckland River at Buckland, AK 19030502 66-00-27 161-11-06 Buckland River at Buckland, AK 19010202 56-48-45 132-57-20 Cascade at Petersburg, AK 19040509 65-10-14 147-17-50 Chatanika River at Chatanika, AK 19040509 65-13-04 146-58-53 Chatanika River at Chatanika, AK 19040509 65-05- ?
Koyukuk River at Koyukuk, AK 19030405 62-54-37 155-37-44 Kuskokwim at Mcgrath, AK 19030502 60-54-30 161-24-45 Kuskokwim River at Akiachak, AK 19030502 60-54-30 161-25-40 Kuskokwim River at Akiachak, AK 19030502 60-54-30 161-25-45 Kuskokwim River at Akiachak, AK 19030502 60-55- ?
Yukon River at Emmonak, AK 19040805 62-30-16 164-30-00 Yukon River at Emmonak, AK 19040805 62-44-02 164-31-03 Yukon River at Emmonak, AK 19040805 62-46-35 164-31-40 Yukon River at Emmonak, AK 19040705 64-39- ?
www.crrel.usace.army.mil /ierd/ijdb/summaries/huc.html   (3128 words)

  
 Tanana River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tanana River (TA-nuh-naw) is a tributary of the Yukon River in Alaska in the United States.
Its headwaters are on the north slope of the Wrangell Mountains in southeast Alaska.
In central Alaska, it emerges into a lowland marsh region known as the Tanana Valley and passes to the south of the city of Fairbanks and past the village of Ester.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanana_River   (272 words)

  
 Tanacross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the east is the language known by the geographic term Upper Tanana, spoken in the villages of Tetlin, Northway, Scottie Creek, Beaver Creek, and (formerly) Chisana.
To the south near the headwaters of the Copper River in Mentasta is the Ahtna language.
The is certainly true for the languages of the Tanana River drainages, which form a continuum extending from Lower Tanana in the west (downriver) to Upper Tanana in the east (upriver).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanacross   (3057 words)

  
 Liquefaction
On the north side of the Alaska range in the Tanana River valley extensive liquefaction was observed where very young river deposits were capped by a thin (<0.3m) frozen surface layer at source distances of 50 to 120 km.
Tanana River valley liquefaction was widespread from Fairbanks to the west, to at least several hundred kilometers eastward.
Two measured transects along the Tanana river at Tetlin bridge showed 1.6% to 3.8% of lateral extension (spreading) of sand bars across distances of 200 meters (21 fissures) and 400 meters (48 fissures).
eerc.berkeley.edu /research/denali/liquefaction.html   (265 words)

  
 AW2004 Abstract: Muhs
For example, Tanana River silts have higher La/Yb, Th/Ta and Th/U values, whereas Yukon River silts have higher Cr/Sc and Zr/Hf values as well as Eu/Eu*, a measure of the negative Eu anomaly in the REE suite.
Results of the geochemical modeling approach indicate that central Alaskan loess is probably derived mostly from a mixture of Tanana River sediment and Yukon River sediment, with minor contributions from local schist bedrock.
The orientations of dunes across the state suggest a dominance of northeasterly winds and the geochemical evidence for a Yukon River contribution to central Alaskan loess is consistent with this pattern.
www.colorado.edu /INSTAAR/AW2004/get_abstr.html?id=28   (1167 words)

  
 Tilting With Nature, Alaska Science Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Rivers are supposed to head in the summit valleys of mountain ranges and not cut across the mountains as these two rivers do.
While the north side of the Tanana Valley may not be moving downward, the uplift on the south side does result in tipping of the region.
One of the consequences is the construction of a major dike near Fairbanks to hold the Tanana River away from the town.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF5/517.html   (387 words)

  
 Native Village of Tanacross-History
The Native Village of Tanacross is an Athabascan Indian Community located on the bank of the Tanana River approximately 12 miles from the community of Tok, Alaska, and 90 miles west of the Canadian Border.
In the early 1900's, the U.S. Army laid an under water telegraph cable from the lower 48 to the Port of Valdez, extending to the Tanana River.
Where the trail and telegraph crossed the Tanana River was known as "Tanana Crossing".
www.nativevillageoftanacross.com /nvthistory.html   (1651 words)

  
 Tanana - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Tanana, river, 600 mi (966 km) long, rising in W Yukon Territory near the Alaskan border and flowing NW across Alaska to the Yukon River; navigable for small boats to Fairbanks, the largest city on the river.
The Tanana valley, near Fairbanks, is central Alaska's chief farming area; grains, potatoes, and other vegetables are grown.
The Tanana, explored by Russian traders c.1860, became an important route to the Yukon goldfields in 1898.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tanana.html   (359 words)

  
 Tanana --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The main headwaters of the Yukon River, however, flow from Atlin Lake and Tagish Lake in the vicinity of the border between British Columbia and Yukon Territory.
It measures 1,980 miles (3,190 kilometres) from the headwaters of the McNeil River (a tributary of the Nisutlin River).
The longest river in Alaska and one of the longest in North America, the Yukon originates in Tagish Lake on the border of the Yukon Territory and British Columbia.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9071147   (622 words)

  
 Tanana - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Tanana, river, east central Alaska, the longest tributary of the Yukon River, 855 km (531 mi) long.
Alaska’s major river, the Yukon, is one of the longest on the North American continent; it flows across the state from east to west, emptying into...
The peoples native to the eastern half of the Subarctic region are speakers of Algonquian languages; they include the Cree, Ojibwa (also known as the...
au.encarta.msn.com /Tanana.html   (84 words)

  
 Salcha Musuem
The Salcha River is a tributary to the Tanana River and the Tanana is a major tributary to the Yukon.
She was born by the mouth of the Salcha River at the Salchaket Indian Village.
The Tanana River was important in the gold rush because it carried miners and supplies to the gold fields.
www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/sal/museum/museum2.html   (7719 words)

  
 Tanana, Alaska photo album
Tanana is accessible by air and river transportation.
It is located about two miles west of the junction of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers, 130 air miles west of Fairbanks.
The City of Tanana (population: approximately 345) was incorporated in 1961.
henkbinnendijk.tripod.com /fairbanks/id21.html   (185 words)

  
 Cabela's Iditarod - Archive - 2003 Pre-Race Coverage, Fairbanks to Ruby Trail Modification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
However, once the Chena joins the Tanana, your average musher should experience a heightened sense of awareness when team emerges from the narrow Chena onto the windswept surface of the Tanana, a vista of innumerable sandbars and marooned drift logs.
The Tanana River ice goes out in early May. Thick pans of ice often jam at Squaw Crossing, a wide and shallow section of the Tanana, and temporarily dam the river.
The Yukon, unlike the Tanana River, is generally reliable since the bottom is rock and gravel, but here at the Palisades the Yukon resembles the Tanana with shallow fast moving channels and shifting sandbars.
www.cabelasiditarod.com /coverage_2003/prerace_article-0321.html   (3350 words)

  
 OLCG: River Serves as Textbook for Teachers
The river's siren song is interrupted by the surprised reactions of the passengers—Alaska teachers from around the state.
The Tanana River is more dangerous to traverse than the Yukon River, says Demientieff, not only because of its swift current (6-8 mph and up to 12 mph in some places as compared to 5-7 mph on the Yukon) but also because of its heavy load of silt.
When river barges encountered silted-in channels, says Demientieff, the barges were parked along the riverbank, and someone went out in a skiff and sounded the murky waters of the channel with a 10-foot pole marked in one-foot increments.
www.uaf.edu /olcg/summer/smetzer.html   (1820 words)

  
 Route Map: Tanana River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Tanana River is formed by the confluence of the Nabesna and Chisana Rivers near Northway.
It then flows 440 miles westward to the Yukon River and then into the Bering Sea.
Tugs and barges based in Nenana carry cargo and freight to the Yukon region in the summer months after the ice breakup.
www.alaskarails.org /route-map/tananariver.html   (106 words)

  
 The Weather Doctor Almanac 2000
The Tanana River is born in the ice fields of the eastern Alaska Range near Mt Hayes.
Because river travel had long been the best and fastest mode of transportation in interior Alaska before air travel, the breakup of river ice meant that people and goods could again easily be moved over long distances.
Once the river ice reaches the stage it becomes unsafe to walk on, a wire is attached to the rope that runs from the top of the tripod to an ingenious mechanism located in a watchman's tower on shore.
www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/almanac/arc2000/alm00apr2.htm   (1486 words)

  
 YUKON - LoveToKnow Article on YUKON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
These enter the delta and the river by the Apoon Pass, which is about 4 ft. deep at mean low water, the current varying from 11/2 to 4 m.
In 184243 the Yukon was explored by the Russian Lieutenant Zagoskin, who built a trading post at Nulato, ascended the river (which he called the Kwikpak) as far as the Tanana, made a track survey of the stream to that point and reported that it was not navigable beyond there.
Survey of Canada (1901); idem, The Macmillan River, Yukon District, Summary of Report of the Geological Survey of Canada for 1902; A. Brooks, A Reconnaissance in the Tanana and White River Basins in 1898, Twentieth Annual Report, U.S. Geol.
www.1911ency.org /Y/YU/YUKON.htm   (1310 words)

  
 Nenana, Alaska :: by BEARFOOT Guides :: On the Tanana and Yukon River on Alaska's Parks Highway. Railroad History, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Everything from flour to propane to generators and fuel is barged in to isolated river villages during the 120 days that the river is clear of ice.
The city of Nenana is at the confluence of the Tanana and Nenana Rivers.
The Tanana River is the large river you see down at the Nenana waterfront, just behind the train depot, shown here.
www.bearfootguides.com /communities/nenana/nenana.htm   (1172 words)

  
 Bonanza Creek LTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest (BCEF) is located in the southern portion of the Yukon-Tanana uplands and adjacent Tanana River valley to the south.
The major river systems draining interior Alaska are the Yukon River and its largest tributary, the Tanana River.
During Quaternary time the sediment fill of the Tanana Valley probably was also modified by alternating periods of erosion and deposition and the formation and destruction of permafrost.
www.lter.uaf.edu /bnz_area.cfm   (937 words)

  
 Yukon River Tagging Project
To determine the number of fall chum salmon in the Yukon River drainage spawning above the Tanana River using a fish mark and recapture technique.
The estimated abundance of fall chum salmon migrating through the mainstem of the Yukon River in 2003 was 485,102.
The fall chum salmon that spawn throughout the Yukon River drainage are important to the culture, economy and ecology of both Alaska and Canada.
cybersalmon.fws.gov /tagging.htm   (686 words)

  
 ESRI Map Book Volume 16: Environmental - Tanana River Erosion Study
Forestry and fishery management issues in the Tanana River basin have generated interest in erosion patterns of the Tanana River from regulatory and management agencies as well as the public.
This study analyzes the banks of the Tanana River using GIS installations at both cooperating organizations.
The study area includes the land along the entire Tanana River within one-half mile of the riverbanks between the communities of Tanana and Northway, a reach of about 480 miles.
www.esri.com /mapmuseum/mapbook_gallery/volume16/environmental5.html   (238 words)

  
 Nenana Ice Classic: Tanana River Ice Annual Breakup Dates
The Tanana River in the interior of Alaska freezes over during October and November.
The Nenana River Ice Classic competition began in 1917 when railroad engineers bet a total of 800 dollars, winner take all, guessing the exact time (month, day, hour, minute) the Tanana River ice would break.
A tripod (connected to an on-shore clock that stops when the ice breaks) is planted in approximately a half meter of river ice during freeze-up in October or November.
nsidc.org /data/docs/daac/nsidc0064_nenana.gd.html   (410 words)

  
 www.ilovealaska.com/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
However, the Tanana people were accustomed to contact with Europeans, due to trading journeys to the Village of Tanana, where Russians bartered Western goods for furs.
In 1968, a $6 million bridge was completed across the Tanana River, which gave the city a road link to Fairbanks and replaced the River ferry.
The Tanana River is shallow, with a maximum draft for loaded river barges of 4.5 feet; by comparison, the Yukon River has very few shallow areas.
www.ilovealaska.com /Alaska/cities.cfm?cityid=218   (858 words)

  
 AK Tails Trails Mag Stories
The first steamer to ply the waters of the Tanana and Chenoa (now Chena) rivers was the steamer "Tanana Chief," under the management of Captain Theodore L. Morgan, of St. Paul Minnesota, in the year of 1898.
Arriving at the Tanana we secured the services of a native who was familiar with that part of the country to assist us in getting through the chain of sloughs.
About 300 miles up the Tanana we noticed a long stretch of river, and in the bend, which was some distance off, I observed puffs of smoke, but heard no report of fire.
home.gci.net /~goldstreamalaska/sample_stories_ATT.htm   (7802 words)

  
 The History of Nenana, Alaska - ExploreNorth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Nenana is in the western-most portion of Tanana Athabascan Indian territory.
However, the Tanana people were accustomed to contact with Europeans, due to trading journeys to the Village of Tanana, where Russians bartered Western goods for furs.
In 1968, a $6 million bridge was completed across the Tanana River, which gave the city a road link to Fairbanks and replaced the River ferry.
www.explorenorth.com /library/communities/alaska/bl-Nenana.htm   (479 words)

  
 Search Results for Tanana - Encyclopædia Britannica
river, east-central Alaska, U.S. Its name is an Athabascan word meaning “river trail.” An important tributary of the Yukon River, it rises from two headstreams, the Chisana and Nabesna rivers on the...
Other significant events in Alaska's history included early gold discoveries on the Stikine River in 1861, at Juneau in 1880, and on Fortymile Creek in 1886, and later the stampede to the Atlin and...
It measures 1,980 miles (3,190 kilometres) from the headwaters of the McNeil River (a tributary...
www.britannica.com /search?query=Tanana&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (297 words)

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