Itkillik River

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The Itkillik RiverScript error: No such module "Unsubst". is a Script error: No such module "convert". tributary of the Colville River in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.[1] The river flows northeast then northwest out of the Endicott Mountains near Oohlah Pass to meet the larger stream about Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Harrison Bay on the Beaufort Sea.[2] An Iñupiaq map, drawn in about 1900, identifies the river as It-kil-lik, meaning Indian.[1]

A melting permafrost formation exposed along the Itkillik River is the largest known yedoma in Alaska. The formation, deposited between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, contains remains of bison, muskoxen, mammoths, and other animals embedded in an ice cliff that is Script error: No such module "convert". high and Script error: No such module "convert". long. The ice is rich in methane. Odors emitted by the gasses released when the ice thaws have led to the site's nickname, the Stinking Hills or Stinky Bluffs.[3]

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