By Charles P. Wohlforth
ISBN-10: 0470289740
ISBN-13: 9780470289747
ISBN-10: 0470442573
ISBN-13: 9780470442579
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In Valdez, the waterfront was swept clean of people. But even that huge earthquake wasn’t an unusual occurrence, at least in the Earth’s terms. Geologists believe the same Alaska coast sank 6 feet in an earthquake in the year 1090. PERMAFROST & SEA ICE The northern Interior and Arctic parts of the state are less susceptible to earthquakes and, since they receive little precipitation, they don’t have glaciers, either. But there’s still a sense of living on a land that’s not permanent, since most of northern Alaska is solid only by virtue of being frozen.
29 I’ve written a book on this subject, The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $14), which tells the story of how Alaska’s Iñupiat and scientists are experiencing and learning about the changing climate. wohlforth. net. 4 History: Scenes on an Oversized Stage The history of Alaska is largely the tale of what didn’t happen. What counts for visitors is not what people accomplished or the few monuments they built, but how little they managed to change this magnificent place.
Passes and broad river valleys between the mountains and the lowlands of Cook Inlet made the region relatively easy to settle and it contains the majority of the state’s people. The population is concentrated in Anchorage, the state’s modern, major city and its environs, and the Matanuska and Susitna valleys, an agricultural and suburban region of broad flatlands between steep mountains. Southcentral dominates Alaska as a commercial and transportation center, including a network of highways and the Alaska Railroad, and has the largest cultural attractions and best visitor facilities and restaurants.
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