Everything about The Alaska North Slope totally explained
The
Alaska North Slope is the region of the
U.S. state of
Alaska located on the northern slope of the
Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the
Arctic Ocean, the
Chukchi Sea being on the western side of
Point Barrow, and the
Beaufort Sea on the eastern.
The region contains the
National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, with the bulk of Alaska's known
petroleum until the
Prudhoe Bay oil field was discovered in 1968, as well as the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which itself has been the subject of controversy surrounding the possibility of petroleum drilling within its boundaries. The petroleum extracted from the region is transferred south by means of the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to
Valdez on the
Pacific Ocean.
Within the North Slope, only a surface "active layer" of the
tundra thaws each season; most of the soil is permanently frozen year-round. On top of this
permafrost, water flows to sea via shallow, braided streams or settles into pools and ponds. Along the bottom of the image the rugged terrain of the Brooks Range Mountains is snow-covered in places (blue areas) and exposed (pink areas) in others.
Much of the region is located in the
North Slope Borough.
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