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Image: Junction of the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers, Alaska

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Description: Alaska. High-altitude oblique aerial photograph looking south toward the junction of the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers. The Koyukuk River (dark color) joins the silt-laden Yukon River (light color) at the right. (Aircraft wing visible at upper right corner of image.)
Title: Junction of the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers, Alaska
Credit: ptl00849.jpg in the USGS Denver Library Photographic Collection, USGS ScienceBase Catalog. This photograph appears as fig. 35 on p. 65 in: Troy Lewis Pewe (1975): Quaternary geology of Alaska. USGS Professional Paper 835 (download page)
Author: According to the caption in Pewe (1975) the photograph was taken by the U.S. Army Air Corps
Permission: This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.
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License: Public domain
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