Tintina Trench
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (March 2022) |
The Tintina Trench is a large northwest-southeast valley extending through
It was named by R.G. McConnell of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1904 after an indigenous word for “chief.”
The Tintina Trench crosses the
Fort Simpson, NWT
where the combined waters turn back north for the Mackenzie's long flow to the Arctic Ocean.
Communities and features of the Trench include the following:
- Lower Post, BC on the Liard Plain, see 'last outpost of civilization' by George Mercer Dawson.
- Watson Lake, Yukon on the Liard Plain, but a waypoint for travel up the Tintina
- Ross River, Yukon
- Faro, Yukon
- Stewart Crossing, Yukon
- Dawson City, Yukon lying just west of and outside the actual Tintina Trench
- Forty Mile, Yukon
- Eagle, Alaska
- Robert Campbell Highway
Geology
The location of the Tintina Trench corresponds with recessive weathering rocks which have been deformed by 450 km of right lateral faulting along the Tintina Fault.
References
- ^ The Geological Framework of the Yukon Territory Archived 2012-02-28 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Travel information on the Tintina Trench
- A summer 2007 article courtesy of Canadian Geographic magazine: Fault Zone: A massive geological scar slicing diagonally across the Yukon... [1]
 | This article about a Yukon location is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- ^ Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine