Shubelik Mountains

Shubelik Mountains in Detail.

SHUBELIK (SHUBLIK) MOUNTAINS, northern Alaska, stretch east and west just south of the Sadlerochit Mountains (q.v.) and north of the Franklin Mountains (q.v.). On the east the Shubelik group encloses the headwaters of the Sadlerochit River and then continues westward to the Cannin [: ] ^ g ^ in the vicinity of Mount Copleston and Shubelik Springs.

According to Leffingwell, Mount Copleston is the western extremity of the Shubelik group. It is also the highest peak in the range. According to Leffingwell, the Shubelik Mountains (which he calls the Shubliks) are generally higher, shorter and wider than the Sadlerochit group. The western end of ^ is ^ several miles farther west than the Sadlerochits, but the eastern end is not visible from the coast. A fault scarp clearly marks the northern boundary of the Shubeliks, but they fall gradually into foothills toward the south. The western or Canning River end is abrupt, but the eastern descends gradually into the open Sadlerochit basin. So far as Leffingwell could determine, the Shubelik Mountains have no traverse valleys to correspond with that made by the Katakturuk River through the Sadlerochit group. G.P.O., 1919, pp.51, 99. U.S. Geol. Survey. 109 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 9400