Ground Water Resources of British Columbia
Chapter 10 — Ground Water Resources of the Plateaus and Highlands Ground Water Regions
10.2 LIARD PLATEAU
by
J. C. Foweraker
The Liard Plateau is located within the Eastern Physiographic System north of the Liard River; to the south lie the Rocky Mountains. The plateau extends north into the Yukon while on the west the plateau is bordered by the Liard Plain (Chapter 8, Figure 8.7). Holland (1964) describes the plateau as mainly consisting of rounded and flat topped summits and timbered ridges lying below 1525 m elevation and gradually diminishing in height to the east. The upland is incised to elevations below 760 m by the Grayling, Scatter and Crow Rivers.
Figure 8.7 Ground water regions of the Plateaus and Highlands
The area was covered by the Pleistocene ice sheet and ice and glacial meltwater moved eastward down the Liard Valley.
No information on ground water potential from well logs, field or office reports on the Liard Plateau is available.
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