布鲁克斯岭

布鲁克斯岭（Brooks Range）是美国阿拉斯加北部和加拿大育空地区的一个山脉，长度为700mi，最高海拔为8976ft，该山脉于约1.26亿年前形成。

该山脉大部分为无人区，世界最大的锌矿红狗矿坐落在布鲁克斯岭西端。

1925年，美国地名委员会以1903年至1924年在美国地质调查局任职的首席地质学家阿尔弗雷德·赫尔斯·布鲁克斯的名字命名该山脉。

## 更多阅读

- Allan, C. (2013). Arctic citadel : a history of exploration in the Brooks Range region of Northern Alaska. Washington, D.C,: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
- Witmer, Dennis "Far to the North: Photographs from the Brooks Range" Far to the North Press (2008)
- Kauffmann, John M. "Alaska's Brooks Range: The Ultimate Mountains" (Second Edition) Mountaineers Books (2005)
- Brown, William E. "History of the Central Brooks Range: Gaunt Beauty, Tenuous Life" University of Alaska Press (2007)
- Cooper, David "Brooks Range Passage" Mountaineers Books (1983) 0-89886-061-X
- Dover, J.H., I.L. Tailleur, and J.A. Dumoulin. (2004). Geologic and fossil locality maps of the west-central part of the Howard Pass quadrangle and part of the adjacent Misheguk Mountain quadrangle, Western Brooks Range, Alaska Miscellaneous Field Studies; Map MF-2413. Reston, Va.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Krumhardt, A.P., A.G. Harris, and K.F. Watts. (1996). Lithostratigraphy, microlithofacies, and conodont biostratigraphy and biofacies of the Wahoo Limestone (Carboniferous), eastern Sadlerochit Mountains, northeast Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1568. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Marshall, R. (1970). Alaska wilderness; exploring the Central Brooks Range 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. 国际标准书号 Special:BookSources/0-520-24498-2
- Mayfield, C.F. et al. (1984). Reconnaissance geologic map of southeastern Misheguk Mountain quadrangle, Alaska Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1503. Reston, Va.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Morin, R.L. (1997). Gravity and magnetic maps of part of the Drenchwater Creek stratiform zinc-lead-silver deposit, Howard Pass quadrangle, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska Open-file report 97-705. Menlo Park, CA: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Morin, R.L. (1997). Gravity models of Abby Creek and Bion barite deposits, Howard Pass quadrangle, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 97-704. Menlo Park, CA: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Mull, C.G. et al. (1994). Geologic map of the Killik River quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 94-679. Reston, Va: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Nelson, P.H. et al. (2006). Potential tight gas resources in a frontier province, Jurassic through Tertiary strata beneath the Brooks Range foothills, Arctic Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2006–1172. Reston, VA: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. (2003). The natural dispersal of metals to the environment in the Wulik River-Ikalukrok Creek area, western Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 107–03. Reston, VA: author.
- U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. (1995). Natural environmental effects of silver-lead-zinc deposits in the Brooks Range, Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 092–95. Reston, VA: author.

## 基本资料

- OS格网系统：布鲁克斯岭、Brooks Range
- 说明：布鲁克斯岭一景，位于加尔布雷思湖附近
- 地址：加拿大
- 美国：阿拉斯加州
- 地区：育空地区
- 长度：700
- 宽度：150
- 山峰：伊斯托山
- 海拔：8976
- 山脉坐标：68°N 12°W
- 座标：69°N 12°W
- 岩石年代：白垩纪
- 造山运动：拉腊米造山运动